Re: Defining local, causal etc., was: Hidden variable theories

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From: Keith Ramsay
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 1992 01:31

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In article <1992Sep29.170356.13002@newshost.lanl.gov> 
jlg@cochiti.lanl.gov (Jim Giles) writes:
|It is not possible to distinguish between wavefunctions that are
|hypothetical entities and  wavefunctions which are real objects.
|Not empirically.  Therefore, their introduction violates Occam's
|razor. 

How do you distinguish between "hypothetical entities" and "real
objects" in any other case?

Keith Ramsay
ramsay@unixg.ubc.ca

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