The (Non)World (Non)View of Quantum Mechanics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4271770 |
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| Authors | N David Mermin (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1992 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 855 |
| Publication date | 1992-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | New Literary History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0028-6087 • E-ISSN: 1080-661X |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/469174 |
| OpenAlex | W2327875529 |
| Language | EN |
NE OF THE BROAD LESSONS of quantum mechanics is that one has to be extremely careful in thinking about the world. One must exercise utmost caution and be suspicious of any attempts, no matter how apparently harmless, to populate the world with conceptual entities. Even in those cases where it is permissible to say this is such-and-such and that is so-and-so, one should be wary of any attempts to develop a picture beyond the narrowest possible formulation of such-and-such-ness and so-and
Classical mechanics · Physics · Quantum mechanics · Theoretical physics · Philosophy · Quantum Mechanics and Applications
| Highly cited | No |
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