Philosophic foundations of quantum mechanics

Front Cover......Page 1
Title Page......Page 2
Copyright 1944 by The University of California Press......Page 3
Preface......Page 4
Contents......Page 8
1. Causal Laws and Probability Laws ......Page 10
2. The Probability Distributions ......Page 14
3. The Principle of Indeterminacy ......Page 18
4. The Disturbance of the Object by the Observation ......Page 23
5. The Determination of Unobserved Objects ......Page 26
6. Waves and Corpuscles......Page 29
7. Analysis of an Interference Experiment ......Page 33
8. Exhaustive and Restrictive Interpretations ......Page 41
9. Expansion of a Function in Terms of an Orthogonal Set ......Page 54
10. Geometrical interprctation in the function space......Page 61
11. Reversion and iteration of transformations ......Page 67
12. Functions of several variables and the configuration space......Page 73
13. Derivation of Schrodinger\'s equation from de Broglie\'s principle......Page 75
14. Operators, eigen-functions, and eigen-values of physical entities......Page 81
15. The commutation rule......Page 85
16. Operator matrices......Page 87
17. Determination of the probability distributions......Page 90
18. Time dependence of the \\psi-function ......Page 94
19. Transformation to other state functions......Page 99
20. Observational determination of the \\psi-function......Page 100
21. Mathematical theory of measurement......Page 104
22. The rules of probability and the disturbance by the measurement ......Page 109
23. The nature of probabilities and of statistical assemblages in quantum mechanics......Page 114
Part-III: Interpretations ......Page 120
24. Comparison of classical and quantum mechanical statistics#120......Page 
25. The corpuscle interpretation......Page 127
26. The impossibility of a chain structure......Page 131
27. The wave interpretation......Page 138
28. Observational language and quantum mechanical language......Page 145
29. Interpretation by a restricted meaning......Page 148
30. Interpretation through a three-valued logic......Page 153
31. The rules of two-valued logic......Page 157
32. The rules of three-valued logic......Page 159
33. Suppression of causal anomalies through a three-valued logic......Page 169
34. Indeterminacy in the object language......Page 175
35. The limitation of measurability......Page 178
36. Correlated systems......Page 179
37. Conclusion......Page 185
Index......Page 188