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Are our concepts limited in principle by our everyday experiences or is this only our conceptual starting point? How is this question related to a resolution of the wave-particle duality?

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They can be regarded as our conceptual starting point. For example, in wave-particle duality, we observed that microscopic particles sometimes act as everyday waves and sometimes as everyday particles. These two were reconciled in quantum mechanics.

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