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Popper's Logik der Forschung and Propensity Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics

  • PHILOSOPHY·THOUGHT·CULTURE
  • 2021, (36), pp.1~24
  • DOI : 10.33639/ptc.2021..36.001
  • Publisher : Research Institute for East-West Thought
  • Research Area : Humanities > Other Humanities
  • Received : May 9, 2021
  • Accepted : June 30, 2021
  • Published : June 30, 2021

Ghim, Zae-young 1

1한국과학영재학교

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ABSTRACT

This paper aims to revisit Karl Popper's Logik der Forschung, first published in 1935, and critically reconstruct Popper's interpretation of quantum mechanics based on it. Above all, we examine whether Popper's propensity interpretation of probability can extend to a fundamental interpretation that properly account for quantum mechanics, rather than just an alternative interpretation of probabilities. Based on this, we discuss the concept of quantum propensity. Furthermore, it examines whether Popper's tendency can be an ontological basis across natural philosophical reasons. We discussed the implications of Zhang Hwe Ik's natural philosophy and his new interpretation of the quantum mechanical state as a propensity to cause events. on these problems. This study aims to critically reconstruct Popper's interpretation of quantum mechanics by reviewing Karl Popper's Logik der Forschung, first published in 1935. Above all, it examines whether the propensity interpretation of probability proposed by Popper can be developed into a new fundamental interpretation of quantum mechanics. Based on this, the concept of quantum propensity is discussed. Furthermore, it examines whether the propensity can be an ontological basis in Popper's overall natural philosophical thinking. In this course, the relationship to Zhang Hwe Ik's natural philosophy will be discussed. In particular, it examines the meaning of the approach to interpreting the state of quantum mechanics as 'propensity to cause events'.

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