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Motion and Form

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Current Issues in Quantum Logic

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There were so many interesting points raised during this workshop, that I wonder whether I can still say anything new on quanuum logic. Therefore, I would like to make a confession. For thirteen years I have been fighting against quantum logic. Due to some paradoxes of sociology, my activities were finally noticed by somebody who said: “Mielnik? Ah, yes, he is doing something in quantum logic”.

The text is a combination of two talks delivered by the author at The Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, in October 1979, and at the Ettore Majorana Centre, Erice, in December 1979.

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    Bogdan Mielnik

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  1. University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy

    Enrico G. Beltrametti

  2. Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    Bas C. van Fraassen

  3. University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA

    Bas C. van Fraassen

  4. Istituto di Scienze Fisiche, Via Benedetto XV, 5, 16132, Genova, Italy

    Enrico G. Beltrametti

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Mielnik, B. (1981). Motion and Form. In: Beltrametti, E.G., van Fraassen, B.C. (eds) Current Issues in Quantum Logic. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-3228-2_34

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