Abstract
Abstract Bohr took it as the key fact of QT that neither of the models for describing the behaviour of systems offered by classical physics— neither the ‘particle picture’ nor the ‘wave picture’—fitted q-systems in all aspects of their behaviour. More particularly he took these two pictures to be ‘complementary’—when one fitted the other one did not. This failure of fit was seen by Bohr as usually only partial however, as a degree of’imprecision of fit’ rather than a total failure of fit; and it is in terms of this notion that Bohr was then able to give expression to his principle of complementarity, viz. that the degrees of imprecision of fit of the wave and particle pictures are reciprocally related: to the extent that one of the pictures fits well, the other fits badly. In this chapter I shall discuss these notions in the context of a more general discussion of Bohr’s philosophy of Quantum Theory.
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