Interaction-Conditional Semantics and the Dissolution of Quantum Paradoxes

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Authors: Jonathon Sendall
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Abstract

This paper argues that several canonical puzzles in quantum mechanics, including spin measurement, the double slit, entanglement correlations, and Wigner's friend, share a common origin in a semantic error and the illicit promotion of interaction conditional outcomes to intrinsic properties. I introduce four principles that license only configuration relative predication, grounding outcomes in physical measurement geometry while preserving objectivity. Applying these principles uniformly dissolves each puzzle without new physics or ad hoc interpretive machinery. Bell's theorem and the Kochen-Specker theorem are reframed not as dynamical mysteries but as constraints on permissible explanatory structure, evidence that intrinsic-outcome semantics is incompatible with empirical reality. The result is a relational objectivity that avoids both naive property realism and observer subjectivism.

Fields of Study & Subjects

Quantum Mechanics and Applications Philosophy and History of Science Philosophy and Theoretical Science

Publication details

Journal / source
arXiv (Cornell University)
Publication date
20 January 2026
Language
EN
Document type
Preprint