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The attempts at interpreting elementary quantum mechanics in terms of statements bearing on the physical systems themselves meet with several difficulties which have been known for a long time. The purpose of the present article is to draw attention to the fact that at least some of these difficulties occur in a much more general theory, which admits conventional Hilbert space quantum mechanics as a particular case.
Er (E. Mach) hat besonders dadurch sanierend gewirkt, dass er deutlich machte, dass die wichtigsten physikalischen Probleme nicht mathematisch-deduktiver Art sind, sondern solche, die sich auf die Grundbegriffe beziehen. A. Einstein
(Letter to M. Besso, January 1948 in A. Einstein, M. Besso — Correspondance 1905–1955, Hermann, Paris, 1972)
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d’ Espagnat, B. (1973). Quantum Logic and Non-Separability. In: Mehra, J. (eds) The Physicist’s Conception of Nature. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-2602-4_39
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