A loose and separate certainty: Caves, Fuchs and Schack on quantum probability one

作者：Stairs Allen^*

来源：Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics , 2011, 42(3): 158-166.

DOI：10.1016/j.shpsb.2011.02.001

• Subjective probability
• Objective probability
• State preparation
• Certainty
• Counterfactuals

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.

• 出版日期2011-8