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rkastner said:No, Wallace doesn't bypass the problem. He just helps himself to already disjoint Hilbert space descriptions as ostensibly part of the 'bare theory'. This fails to account for the emergence of classical distinguishability--i.e, 'system' as distinct from its 'environment'. And it wrongly describes contingent information (the empirical situation at hand) as part of the pure theory.
You raise a lot of points here that I can't really follow. Ok - my background is math and Wallace uses a very theorem proof, theorem proof approach. I really can't fault his math. So let's look at one of his key theorems - the non contextuality theorem on page 475. Where is his error?
Also it needs to be said MW is not the only approach using histories - decoherent/consistent histories does as well. Are your objections the same for that as well?
Thanks
Bill