Mysteries without mysticism and correlations without correlata: On quantum knowledge and knowledge in general

Foundations of Physics

Volumn 33, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1649-1689

  Plotnitsky, Arkady ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bohr; Complementarity; Correlations; Epistemology

Indexed keywords

EID: 0141941147     PISSN: 00159018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1026065218214     Document Type: Review

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