Contextuality, Fine-Tuning and Teleological Explanation
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چکیده
I assess various proposals for the source of intuition that there is something problematic about contextuality, ultimately concluding contextuality best thought in terms fine-tuning. then argue as with other fine-tuning problems quantum mechanics, this behaviour can be understood a manifestation teleological features physics. Finally discuss several formal mathematical frameworks have been used to analyse and consider how their results should interpreted by scientific realists. In course discussion obtain new results—I demonstrate preparation form fine-tuning, show measurement explained appeal global constraint forbidding closed causal loops, negative probabilities arise from classical ontological model together an epistemic restriction.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Foundations of Physics
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['1572-9516', '0015-9018']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10701-021-00516-y