Abstract
The Max Born’s philosophic sense about the causality is related to the orthodox interpretation of Quantum Mechanics, which is described as the Copenhague’s interpretation. Therefore, Born’s statistical lecture has been considered not as defending a neopositivist philosophy of physics.
But the Born’s interpretation of wave function , although it settles indeterminism, does not imply the abandonment causal explanations of physical phenomena. However, M. Born aims at showing how is it possible to defend a realistic view of scientific labour making use of the notion of invariant observational, that leads to the reconciliation of wave and corpuscular theories of physics. Meanwhile, the probability plays a very important role in the physical causality.
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