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The purpose of this communication is to present a possible new writing of fundamental physics that has to do with the interpretation of Quantum Mechanics. In fact, the first thing that has to be said is that, in that matter, there is a rule that is systematically transgressed. It is an epistemological rule but at our level it is so trivial that, to my knowledge, it has never been expressed as such by philosophers. That rule that I call the `constituent/constituted rule’ just says that:
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the properties of the components are not those of the thing constituted (for instance we say that a brick is hard and a house comfortable, but we do not say that a house is hard or that a brick is comfortable)
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consequently, it would be highly confusing to give the same name to the components as to the constituted thing.
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Hemmerlin, E. (1999). From Quantal to Material Level. In: Cornelis, G.C., Smets, S., Van Bendegem, J.P. (eds) Metadebates on Science. EINSTEIN MEETS MAGRITTE: An Interdisciplinary Reflection on Science, Nature, Art, Human Action and Society, vol 6. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2245-2_19
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