...That stretch constitutes inference.” – John Dewey, Experience and Nature (1929, LW 1: 12-13).

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(3/3)

...Linked in certain other ways with another natural object–the human organism–they are how things are experienced as well. Experience thus reaches down into nature; it has depth. It also has breadth and to an indefinitely elastic extent. It stretches.... (2/3)

Unfortunately several graduate students were injured just after this photo, when the book fell over.

Maybe this will help? It was recommended to me on FB. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rs_q...

I swear it was my 10th photo!

Here's a paper where I put the same sort of approach to use: www.matthewjbrown.net/professional...

Here's a paper of Finkelstein that I think compactly expresses his perspective on this. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

This seems similar to David Finkelstein's later (Bohr-inspired) approach, which focused on quantum effects being about relations between initial preparation and final measurement and minimized the role of "quantum state." He thought the standard approach ignored preparation's significance.