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International Studies in the Philosophy of Science Volume 17, 2003 - Issue 2
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Four strategies for dealing with the counting anomaly in spontaneous collapse theories of quantum mechanics

Peter J. Lewis Department of Philosophy, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida, USA
Pages 137-142 | Published online: 21 Jul 2010

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  • GHIRARDI , G.G. and BASSI , A. 1999 . Do dynamical reduction models imply that arithmetic does not apply to ordinary macroscopic objects? . British Journal for the Philosophy of Science , 50 : 105 – 120 .
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