2016/04/04 by Mohrhoff, Ulrich
#FOS: Physical sciences #Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1604.01016
How can quantum mechanics be (i) the fundamental theoretical framework of contemporary physics and (ii) a probability calculus that presupposes the events to which, and on the basis of which, it assigns probabilities? The question is answered without invoking knowledge or observers, by interpreting the necessary distinction between two kinds of physical quantities - unconditionally definite quantities and quantities that have values only if they are measured - as a distinction between the manifested world and its manifestation.