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A loose and separate certainty: Caves, Fuchs and Schack on quantum probability one
Authors:Allen Stairs
Institution:Department of Philosophy, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA
Abstract:Carlton Caves, Fuchs, and Schack (2002) have recently appealed to an argument of mine (Stairs, 1983) to address a problem for their subjective Bayesian account of quantum probability. The difficulty is that on the face of it, quantum mechanical probabilities of one appear to be objective, but in that case, the Born Rule would yield a continuum of probabilities between zero and one. If so, we end up with objective probabilities strictly between zero and one. The authors claim that objective probabilities of one leads to a dilemma: give up locality or fall into contradiction. I argue that this conclusion depends on an overly strong interpretation of objectivism about quantum probabilities.
Keywords:Subjective probability  Objective probability  State preparation  Certainty  Counterfactuals
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