论文标题
科学客观性及其极限
Scientific Objectivity and its Limits
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论文摘要
测量结果为物理理论提供了数据。除非他们是客观的，否则他们不支持客观的科学知识。因此，量子测量的结果必须是客观的物理事实。但是最近的论点表明，如果量子理论普遍适用，那么就没有这样的事实。这要求重新评估事实和客观性的概念。如果量子理论普遍适用，那么关于物理世界的事实包括每个量子测量结果的事实。这些物理事实缺乏理想的客观性，但是它们更适度的客观性就是科学所需要的。
Measurement outcomes provide data for a physical theory. Unless they are objective they support no objective scientific knowledge. So the outcome of a quantum measurement must be an objective physical fact. But recent arguments purport to show that if quantum theory is universally applicable then there is no such fact. This calls for a reappraisal of the notions of fact and objectivity. If quantum theory is universally applicable the facts about the physical world include a fact about each quantum measurement outcome. These physical facts lack an ideal kind of objectivity but their more modest objectivity is all that science needs.
