SPIN MANUALS: EMPIRICAL LOGIC TALKS QUANTUM MECHANICS

Publisher Summary This chapter presents the language of Empirical Logic that is constructed with the aim of allowing maximum freedom regarding what it can describe while at the same time continuing to discriminate among conceptually distinct ideas. It describes a particular collection of experiments called the spin experiments. The chapter is not about physics but it illustrates how to use the concepts of Empirical Logic to discuss a theory and explains how Empirical Logic can be used to make fine distinctions that would otherwise be obscured. Empirical Logic is general enough to describe any experimental arrangement that can be characterized by a collection of operations and it is tight enough to keep from confusing certain distinct ideas.

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