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Tuesday, 19 October 2004

Can any Description of Reality be Completed?
Tomasz Placek, Jagellion University, Poland
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

Abstract:  The idea behind hidden-variable models of quantum mechanics is "incomplete description":  e.g., correlations between space-like separated measurement results are supposed to vanish in a completed description.  Using resources of Belnap's (Synthese 1992) branching space-times (BST), I analyze a general notion of completing a description in terms of model extensions.  I investigate then which descriptions of phenomena can be completed, and for what price.


 
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