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Since various arguments seem to speak against a particle interpretation, the allegedly only alternative, namely a field interpretation, is often taken to be the appropriate ontology of QFT.
There are at least four proposals for a field interpretation of QFT, all of which respect the fact that the operator-valuedness of quantum fields impedes their direct reading as physical fields.
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Philosophers who approach the mind as a field for interpretation are more likely to hold a non-mechanistic version of this story according to which a person should be interpreted as instrumentally or realizationally desiring p when we already interpret her as intrinsically desiring q and we already interpret her as believing that p would make q more likely.
See the section on the field interpretation of QFT for a critical discussion.
The occurrence of unitarily inequivalent representations (UIRs), which first seemed to cause problems specifically for the particle interpretation but which appears to carry over to the field interpretation, may well be a severe obstacle for any ontological interpretation of QFT.
Culture is baggage, and music cannot reach our ears except through a field of interpretation.
Just as Faraday's field interpretation of electric phenomena may be contrasted with action-at-a-distance interpretations, so Riemann's infinitesimal geometric standpoint may be contrasted with distance-geometry, such as, Euclidean and ordinary non-Euclidean geometry.
At first sight the field interpretation seems to be much better off, considering that a field is not a localized entity and that it may vary continuously so no requirements for localizability and countability.
However to assist with well-directed sampling, and with field interpretation of sediment sequences, such information is needed during the fieldwork period as well.
Does the field interpretation also suffer from problems concerning non-localizability?
However, on closer scrutiny the field interpretation itself is not above reproach.
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