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work_fsldehbjmjca5gs6bjkggkoasq	Bas C. van Fraassen	Science as Representation: Flouting the Criteria	2004	11	.pdf	application/pdf	4853	302	60	The Born rule and von Neumann's "collapse" postulate in quantum mechanics provide a telling case for this appearances, but accepted the criterion that a complete physics must explain how those appearances are produced in reality. measured on a system in quantum state w, the expectation value of the Measurement outcomes are the appearances; the quantum states are the theoretically described reality. from the quantum state via the character of object and measurement setup that in a measurement, the quantum state of the object is projected or that quantum systems lurch from one pure state to another, simply asserting that upon measurement the object will be in one of the eigenstates No collapse is needed for measurement outcomes: while in a quantum state which does not imply that Note well that this is a matter of appearance only: the quantum state is not collapsed. measurement outcomes) but not the quantum state.	./cache/work_fsldehbjmjca5gs6bjkggkoasq.pdf	./txt/work_fsldehbjmjca5gs6bjkggkoasq.txt