What Determinism Means in Quantum Theory

Distinguish determinism, predictability, stochasticity, causality, and reversibility in physical theories.

Determine whether a toy physical theory is deterministic from its state space and dynamical law.

Show how uniqueness of Schrödinger evolution makes closed-system unitary dynamics deterministic.

Explain why deterministic state evolution does not by itself determine unique measurement outcomes.

Distinguish operational claims about observed statistics from ontological claims about physical reality.

Formulate the measurement problem as an incompatibility among completeness of the quantum state, universally unitary dynamics, and single definite outcomes.