Editing Implicate and explicate order (section)

=== Hidden variable theory ===
Before developing his ''implicit order'' approach, Bohm had proposed a [[hidden variable theory|hidden variable]] theory of quantum physics (see [[Bohm interpretation]]). According to Bohm, a key motivation for doing so had been purely to show the [[Subjunctive possibility|possibility]] of such theories.  On this, {{harvnb|Bohm|1980|p=81}} said, "... it should be kept in mind that before this proposal was made there had existed the widespread impression that no conception of any hidden variable at all, not even if it were abstract and hypothetical, could possibly be consistent with the quantum theory."  {{harvnb|Bohm|1980|p=110}} also claimed that "the demonstration of the possibility of theories of hidden variables may serve in a more general philosophical sense to remind us of the unreliability of conclusions based on the assumption of the complete universality of certain features of a given theory, however general their domain of validity seems to be."  Another aspect of Bohm's motivation had been to point out a confusion he perceived to exist in quantum theory.  On the dominant approaches in quantum theory, he said: "...we wish merely to point out that this whole line of approach re-establishes at the abstract level of statistical potentialities the same kind of analysis into separate and autonomous components in interaction that is denied at the more concrete level of individual objects" ({{harvnb|Bohm|1980|p=174}}).