is both a player and a spectator, is explained here illuminatingly. With
regard to logical ambiguities and paradoxes, which may show up in all
these topics, he, like Locker, is of the opinion that, philosophically
speaking all apory of a lower level have to be accepted an a higher
level of thinking. After the above expositions of a more general purport
we turn now to two contributions which are particularly focused on
Bohr's concept of complementarity. First is the article of Hilgevoord
who briefly and non-technically describes a short curriculum vitae of
the concept beginning with Planck through Bohr to Heisenberg and
Schrodinger. Included in this short story, of course, is the famous
wave-particle duality and the paradox inherent in it many physicists are
still saddled with. How this paradox was solved is explained here simply
and clearly: first, generally by quantum mechanics where the disturbance
theory of measurement was supposed to be of some relevance, and
secondly, where this theory is further refmed leading to Bohr's
conclusion of the essential unsolvability, and accordingly the
completeness, of the statistical element of quantum mechanics. The
reading of this short article may arouse questions and surmises whether
complementarity has been ruminated by Bohr to tame the law of excluded
middle dividing the well-defined content of position measurement from
that of momentum measurement, just to mention one. Whatever it may be
the idea of complementarity betrays the perplexity of the observing
system in dealing with nature's complexity.