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work_z4vs4dnorvbbxc2p6kwqfix2kq	Gordon Belot	Quantum states for primitive ontologists	2011	16	.pdf	application/pdf	8454	561	63	Abstract Under so-called primitive ontology approaches, in fully describing the history of a quantum system, one thereby attributes interesting properties to regions of Bohmian particles and versions of spontaneous collapse theories in which by specifying the history of the quantum state one determines the (physically real) mass than for others: in taking the specification of a history of a quantum system to involve the attribution of properties to regions of spacetime primitive ontologists provide themselves with resources of the same sort employed by classical theories in particles and a wave-function encoding the quantum state of the system. world-particle in the system's configuration space.12 Only the first of these two options amounts to a primitive ontology approach to understanding quantum mechanics, n-particle wave-functions as corresponding to multi-fields on ordinary three-space We can think of each of the approaches under consideration as arising via generalization from the field interpretation of single-particle Bohmian mechanics.	./cache/work_z4vs4dnorvbbxc2p6kwqfix2kq.pdf	./txt/work_z4vs4dnorvbbxc2p6kwqfix2kq.txt