Interaction-Conditional Semantics and the Dissolution of Quantum Paradoxes

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2601.18810v1
• Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2026 01:22:22 GMT
• Title: Interaction-Conditional Semantics and the Dissolution of Quantum Paradoxes
• Authors: Jonathon Sendall,
• Abstract summary: I introduce four principles that license only configuration relative predication, grounding outcomes in physical measurement geometry while preserving objectivity.<n>Bell's theorem and the Kochen-Specker theorem are reframed not as dynamical mysteries but as constraints on permissible explanatory structure.
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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.

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