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On Quantum Propensities: Two Arguments Revisited

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Peter Milne and Neal Grossman have argued against Popper's propensity interpretation of quantum mechanics, by appeal to the two-slit experiment and to the distinction between mixtures and superpositions, respectively. In this paper I show that a different propensity interpretation successfully meets their objections. According to this interpretation, the possession of a quantum propensity by a quantum system is independent of the experimental set-ups designed to test it, even though its manifestations are not.

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Suárez, M. On Quantum Propensities: Two Arguments Revisited. Erkenntnis 61, 1–16 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:ERKE.0000037514.89664.ee

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