Pure Quantum Interpretations Are Not Viable
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Pure interpretations of quantum theory, which reject the classical part of the Copenhagen interpretation without adding new structure to it’s quantum part, are not viable. This is a consequence of a non-uniqueness result for the canonical operators.
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