Eidos and Identitas Indiscernibilium in Quantum Mechanics

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https://doi.org/10.12775/SetF.2020.007

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identity, property, wave function, overlapping, symmetry

Abstract

The principle of identitas indiscernibilium can be thoroughly expressed in a quantum context, overcoming the debate about the possibility of distinction among identical entities according to space-time parameters: the symmetry defined by the exchange of the wave function without overlapping describes the behavior of particles as if they were alike. That nature of the wave function is depicted along the essay as a relational property of observation, not of the quantum object itself, making the principle take an epistemological turn, dissociated from the object ontic drive.

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Vicente Llamas Roig, Pontificia Universidad Antonianum (Murcia)

Profesor asociado-Doctor departamento de Filosofía y Sociedad

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LLAMAS ROIG, Vicente. Eidos and Identitas Indiscernibilium in Quantum Mechanics. Scientia et Fides. Online. 13 January 2020. Vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 141-163. [Accessed 4 July 2025]. DOI 10.12775/SetF.2020.007.

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