Can Quantum-Mechanical Description of Physical Reality Be Considered Complete?

Selected reading: EPR reality criterion and Bohr’s 1935 response.

How to study this source

• What does quantum theory describe?

  coreEPR reality criterion and Bohr’s 1935 response

  Reconstruct the EPR criterion of reality and its argument about completeness.

Ideas and questions

Read background definitions when a term blocks the argument. Then return to the source and reconstruct its claim in your own words.

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  David Deutsch. Compare assumptions, evidence and scope with the source above. These are editorial companions, not necessarily direct responses.

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• Quantum Mechanics and Experience

  David Albert. Compare assumptions, evidence and scope with the source above. These are editorial companions, not necessarily direct responses.