Phenomenological Reviews

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Attempt at the logical explanation of the wave-particle duality

Jarosław Pykacz

pp. 269-282

Abstract

In the orthodox quantum logic approach to foundations of quantum mechanics originated by Birkhoff and von Neumann [1] the object called quantum logic is not a logic in the very sense of this word but an algebraic structure: orthomodular lattice or poset. These orthomodular structures, abstracted from structures of Hilbert spaces used to describe quantum phenomena are weakenings of Boolean algebras. They can be thought of as representing Lindenbaum algebras of systems of propositions about quantum objects, the propositions belonging to the quantum logic proper. Since Lindenbaum algebras of propositional systems which obey the rules of classical logic are Boolean algebras it is inferred that the quantum logic proper, whatever it means, is non-classical.

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Dalla Chiara Maria Luisa, Giuntini Roberto, Laudisa Federico (1999) Language, quantum, music: selected contributed papers of the tenth international congress of logic, methodology and philosophy of science, Florence, august 1995. Dordrecht, Springer.

Pages: 269-282

DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-2043-4_25

Full citation:

Pykacz Jarosław (1999) „Attempt at the logical explanation of the wave-particle duality“, In: M. L. Dalla Chiara, R. Giuntini & F. Laudisa (eds.), Language, quantum, music, Dordrecht, Springer, 269–282.