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This paper explores the consequences of the orthodox resolution of the measurement problem for the axiomatic base of non-relativistic elementary quantum mechanics. It is argued that the standard resolution of the measurement problem generates a paradox whose dissolution may be achieved through an enrichment of the axiomatic foundations of quantum mechanics. These results are also linked to some recent creative proposals by Nancy Cartwright concerning the nature of the so-called “reduction of the wave packet”.
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Shanks, N. Axiomatic quantum mechanics and radioactive decay. Erkenntnis 39, 243–255 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01128230
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01128230