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Is the Statistical Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics ψ-Ontic or ψ-Epistemic?
arXiv
Authors: Mario Hubert
Year
2022
Paper ID
57392
Status
Preprint
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The ontological models framework distinguishes ψ-ontic from ψ-epistemic wavefunctions. It is, in general, quite straightforward to categorize the wave-function of a certain quantum theory. Nevertheless, there has been a debate about the ontological status of the wave-function in the statistical interpretation of quantum mechanics: is it ψ-epistemic and incomplete or ψ-ontic and complete? I will argue that the wavefunction in this interpretation is best regarded as ψ-ontic and incomplete.
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