The Meaning of Einstein’s Incompleteness Claim

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Ignited by Einstein and Bohr a century ago, the philosophical struggle about Reality is yet unfinished, with no signs of a swift resolution. Despite vast technological progress fueled by the iconic Einstein/Podolsky/Rosen paper (EPR), the intricate link between ontic and epistemic aspects of Quantum Theory (QT) has greatly hindered our grip on Reality and further progress in physical theory. Fallacies concealed by tortuous logical negations made EPR comprehension much harder than it could have been had Einstein written it himself in German. EPR is plagued with preconceptions about what a physical property is, the “Uncertainty Principle”, and the Principle of Locality. Numerous interpretations of QT vis-à-vis Reality exist and are keenly disputed. This is the first of a series of articles arguing for a novel physical interpretation I call “The Ontic Probability Interpretation” (TOPI). A gradual explanation of TOPI is given intertwined with a meticulous logico-philosophical scrutiny of EPR, with Part I focusing on the meaning of Einstein’s “incompleteness” claim for QT: a conceptual confusion, a preconception about Reality, and a flawed dichotomy are shown to be severe obstacles for the EPR argument to succeed.

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