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Steven French & Juha Saatsi (Eds.): Scientific Realism and the Quantum. Oxford University Press: Oxford 2020, 336 pp., £60.00 (hardback), ISBN: 9780198814979

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  1. J. Fraser characterizes these as “expectation values of products of field operators associated with well-separated space-time regions” (p. 286), cf. Ruetsche (p. 306).

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Glick, D. Steven French & Juha Saatsi (Eds.): Scientific Realism and the Quantum. Oxford University Press: Oxford 2020, 336 pp., £60.00 (hardback), ISBN: 9780198814979. J Gen Philos Sci 52, 177–183 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10838-020-09536-0

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