Abstract
AbstractThis paper provides an algebraic reconstruction of Einstein’s own argument for the incompleteness of quantum mechanics—the one that he thought did not make it into the EPR paper—in order to clarify the assumptions that underlie an understanding of Einstein completeness as categoricity, the sense in which it is a type of descriptive completeness, and some of the various ways in which it has been more often misconstrued.
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Subject
General Physics and Astronomy
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