- 著者
- Masanao OZAWA
- 出版者
- Japan Association for Philosophy of Science
- 雑誌
- Annals of the Japan Association for Philosophy of Science (ISSN:04530691)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.11, no.2, pp.107-121, 2003-03-05 (Released:2009-03-26)
- 参考文献数
- 15
- 被引用文献数
- 1
The argument is re-examined that the program of deriving the rule for the state change caused by a measurement from the Schrödinger equation holding for the object-apparatus composite system falls into a vicious circle or an infinite regress called the von Neumann chain. It is shown that this argument suffers from a physical inconsistency concerning the causality between the process of reading of the outcome in the apparatus and the state change in the measured object caused by the measurement. A consistent argument which accomplishes the above program without falling into the circular argument is presented.