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Veiled Reality

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In Search of Reality

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In their beds at night, children ask for details about a fairy tale. How big was the pumpkin? What color were Puss-in-Boots‘ boots? In the same way, our reason questions our positive understanding. Now then, all this physics! Does it really disclose nothing but rules and recipes?

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d’Espagnat, B. (1983). Veiled Reality. In: In Search of Reality. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-87050-7_9

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