A modal ontology of properties for quantum mechanics

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• 作者：Newton da Costa (1)
  Olimpia Lombardi (2)
  Mariano Lastiri (3)
  
• 关键词：Quantum Mechanics ; Modal ; Hamiltonian interpretation ; Bundles of properties ; Contextuality ; Indistinguishability
• 刊名：Synthese
• 出版年：2013
• 出版时间：November 2013
• 年：2013
• 卷：190
• 期：17
• 页码：3671-3693
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• 作者单位：Newton da Costa (1)
  Olimpia Lombardi (2)
  Mariano Lastiri (3)
  
  1. Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianopolis, Brazil
  2. CONICET, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
  3. CONICET, Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero, Buenos Aires, Argentina
  
• ISSN：1573-0964

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Our purpose in this paper is to delineate an ontology for quantum mechanics that results adequate to the formalism of the theory. We will restrict our aim to the search of an ontology that expresses the conceptual content of the recently proposed modal-Hamiltonian interpretation, according to which the domain referred to by non-relativistic quantum mechanics is an ontology of properties. The usual strategy in the literature has been to focus on only one of the interpretive problems of the theory and to design an interpretation to solve it, leaving aside the remaining difficulties. On the contrary, our aim in the present work is to formulate a “global” solution, according to which different problems can be adequately tackled in terms of a single ontology populated of properties, in which systems are bundles of properties. In particular, we will conceive indistinguishability between bundles as a relation derived from indistinguishability between properties, and we will show that states, when operating on combinations of indistinguishable bundles, act as if they were symmetric with no need of a symmetrization postulate.