The Roles of One Thought Experiment in Interpreting Quantum Mechanics. Werner Heisenberg Meets
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Maybe this is one of the reasons this particular thought experiment has not received much detailed attention in the philosophical literature on thought experiments up to date. As I want to argue in this paper, this neglect is to be regretted, as one of the philosophical accounts of the function of thought experiments can provide the clue to a most fruitful understanding of Heisenberg’s thought experiment. In this way the philosophical discussion on thought experiments ∗The author is Research Assistant of the Fund for Scientific Research — Flanders (Belgium).
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