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. 2022 Mar 22;24(4):434.
doi: 10.3390/e24040434.

Quantum Epistemology and Falsification

Giacomo Mauro D'Ariano  1   2   3
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Quantum Epistemology and Falsification

Giacomo Mauro D'Ariano. Entropy (Basel). .

Abstract

The operational axiomatization of quantum theory in previous works can be regarded as a set of six epistemological rules for falsifying propositions of the theory. In particular, the Purification postulate-the only one that is not shared with classical theory-allows falsification of random-sequences generators, a task classically unfeasible.

Keywords: Operational Probabilistic Theories (OPTs); falsifiability; quantum theory axiomatization; randomness generation.

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The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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