Paradoxes of measurement.
Applying Husserl's Eidetic Phenomenology to the transcendental structure (or "phenomenological reduction") of scientific data "given" in measurement to a first-person individual observer (the experimenter, S(1)) and a related third-person individual observer (the observer of the measurement process, S(3)), and comparing the outcomes, two paradoxical theses, "paradoxes of measurement," are derived. Thesis I: classical science necessarily entails "complementarity," "uncertainty relations," and the "entanglement" of observers and the data they observe. This situation is analogous in structure to that of quantum physics. Thesis II: a quantum object is a physical object with footprints in the perceptual world, but lacking a space-time "body"; it exists ontologically before the constitution of the perceptual world of the laboratory.
Heelan
Patrick A
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Department of Philosophy, Georgetown University, Washington, DC 20057, USA. heelanp@georgetown.edu