Do dynamical reduction models imply that arithmetic does not apply to ordinary macroscopic objects?
British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 50 (1):49-64 (1999)
Abstract
We analyse a recent paper in which an alleged devastating criticism of the so called GRW proposal to account for the objectification of the properties of macroscopic systems has been presented and we show that the author has not taken into account the precise implications of the GRW theory. This fact makes his conclusions basically wrong. We also perform a survey of measurement theory aimed to focus better on the physical and the conceptual aspects of the so-called macro-objectification problem.DOI
10.1093/bjps/50.1.49
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