nature herself determines values measured

An example of personification in scientific discourse:

"Once [Neils Bohr] said that it is the observer who always chooses the experimental setup, and therefore also which kind of observable that can be measured, but from this moment it is nature herself that determines which value the outcome will have."

Faye, Jan (2017) Complementarity and pragmatic epistemology: a comparison of Bohr and C. I. Lewis, in, Neils Bohr and the Philosophy of Physics. Twenty-first-century perspectives (Jan Faye & Henry J. Folse, eds.) Bloomsbury Academic: London, pp.115-131.

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Author: Keith

Former school and college science teacher, teacher educator, research supervisor, and research methods lecturer. Emeritus Professor of Science Education at the University of Cambridge.