title: On Quantum Causality
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metadata.value: Pris, Igor E.
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metadata.value: 2023-10-09T19:44:26Z
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metadata.value: 2023-10-09T19:44:26Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2023-09
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metadata.value: Pris I. E. On Quantum Causality. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies, 2023, vol. 39, issue 3, pp. 462–477. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu17.2023.305 (In Russian)
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu17.2023.305
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/44154
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metadata.value: For Kant causality is an a priori category of the understanding, a necessary condition for the
  possibility of any experience. Later Wittgenstein’s philosophy rejects transcendentalism. We
  can only speak of causes and effects if in some basic situations, or ‘language games’, we already
  treat some things as causes of what happens. Since the notion of cause becomes meaningful
  only within a language game, it is not unambiguous. Quantum causal language games presuppose
  the use of quantum theory. We treat the latter as Wittgenstein’s grammar of a quantum
  ‘form of life’, or rule (norm), anchored in its applications — quantum phenomena as language
  games. Quantum correlations are often interpreted as a manifestation of the nonlocality of
  quantum mechanics. This is a view of quantum phenomena from the perspective of classical
  physics. Our contextual point of view rejects the nonlocality of quantum theory in the
  sense of instantaneous causal influence at a distance. But it does not admit its locality in the
  sense of classical causality either. We introduce the notion of quantum causality which allows
  us to treat quantum correlations as local, but context-dependent. Their formal cause is an entangled wave function. Any particular quantum correlation, identifiable in a context of its
  observation as a result of the wave function reduction, post factum can be treated as a classical
  causal correlation. From the point of view of the proposed contextual quantum realism,
  epistemology is secondary, and ontology is sensitive to context. Quantum correlations exist
  (are real) before application of the theory, independently of their identification (description,
  measurement), but have no identity, which appears only as a result of application of the theory
  and their identification in the context. In other words, they are real, but not pre-determined,
  not autonomous.
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metadata.value: This work has been supported in part by the Belarusian Republican Foundation for Fundamental
  Research. Grant no. Г22МС-001.
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metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies;Volume 39; Issue 3
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: classical correlation
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: quantum correlation
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: classical causality
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: quantum causality
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: language game
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: local realism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: contextual quantum realism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: On Quantum Causality
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metadata.value: Article
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