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arXiv:quant-ph/0206026

The Spirit and the Letter of Copenhagen: A Response to Andrei Khrennikov

Arkady Plotnitsky

Published Jun 5, 2002• 5 citations
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Abstract

The present communication addresses (by way of a response to Andrei Khrennikov's recent argument), the epistemology of quantum mechanics and Bohr's interpretation of quantum mechanics as complementarity.
DOI
10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/0206026

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