[P]hysical theories are neither realist nor antirealist. Th… - Tim Maudlin

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[P]hysical theories are neither realist nor antirealist. That is... a . It is a person's attitude toward a physical theory that is either realist or antirealist. ...[T]he theory toward which Osiander was antirealist and Galileo realist is one and the same theory. The theory itself is neither.

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Tim William Eric Maudlin (born April 23, 1958) is an American philosopher of science who has done influential work on the metaphysical foundations of physics and logic.

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Quantum theory... formalism... uses no more than linear algebra and vector spaces. ...A particularly nice and accessible presentation of the requisite mathematics can be found in 's Quantum Mechanics and Experience (1992, Ch. 2).

Any book which attempts to deal with quantum theory, Special Relativity and General Relativity courts various forms of disaster.

Non-locality appears at exactly the point where the "measurement problem" which infects standard quantum theory is resolved.

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