@misc{Lexicon of Arguments, title = {Quotation from: Lexicon of Arguments – Concepts - Ed. Martin Schulz, 29 Mar 2024}, author = {Cartwright,Nancy}, subject = {Measurements}, note = {I 169 Measurement problem / Cartwright: macroscopic objects have many degrees of freedom. - Problem: the effect of averaging over these is to eliminate the interference terms, which are characteristic of superpositions - so the superposition looks like a mixture in a large system, in which the phases are not correlated. - They are statistically indistinguishable. - PutnamVs: a superposition is also a superposition when it is disguised. >Complex, >Observation, >Explanation, >Description, >Quantum mechanics.}, note = { Car I N. Cartwright How the laws of physics lie Oxford New York 1983 CartwrightR I R. Cartwright A Neglected Theory of Truth. Philosophical Essays, Cambridge/MA pp. 71-93 In Theories of Truth, Paul Horwich, Aldershot 1994 CartwrightR II R. Cartwright Ontology and the theory of meaning Chicago 1954 }, file = {http://philosophy-science-humanities-controversies.com/listview-details.php?id=247321} url = {http://philosophy-science-humanities-controversies.com/listview-details.php?id=247321} }