Humean supervenience and tripartite entanglement relations
- Lorenzetti, Lorenzo Università della Svizzera italiana, Svizzera
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04.11.2020
Published in:
- Axiomathes. - 2022, vol. 32, p. 217–231
English
It has been argued that Humean Supervenience (HS) is threatened by the existence of quantum entanglement relations. The most conservative strategy for defending HS is to add the problematic entanglement relations to the supervenience basis, alongside spatiotemporal relations. In this paper, I’m going to argue against this strategy by showing how certain particular cases of tripartite entanglement states – i.e. GHZ states – posit some crucial problems for this amended version of HS. Moreover, I will show that the principle of free recombination – which is strictly linked to HS – is severely undermined if we add entanglement relations to the supervenience basis. I conclude that the conservative move is very unappealing, and therefore the defender of HS should pursue other, more controversial, strategies (e.g. committing to the nomological interpretation of the wave function).
- Language
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- English
- Classification
- Philosophy, psychology
- License
- CC BY
- Open access status
- hybrid
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- RERO DOC 333537
- DOI 10.1007/s10516-020-09522-7
- ARK ark:/12658/srd1319405
- Persistent URL
- https://n2t.net/ark:/12658/srd1319405
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