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View SchemaCounter-Factual Meaningfulness and the Bell and CHSH Inequalities
| Authors | Travis Norsen |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0606084 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0606084 |
Abstract
We discuss the role of counter-factual meaningfulness (a weaker cousin of "counter-factual definiteness") as a premise in the derivation of the Bell and CHSH inequalities. The basic question motivating the discussion is this: can the CHSH inequality, unlike the original Bell inequality, be derived without making a hidden-variables (or equivalent counter-factual definiteness) assumption? We answer, somewhat tentatively, in the negative, and suggest that an appropriately-modified version of the EPR argument is needed to rigorously establish that the empirical violation of Bell-type inequalities can only be blamed on the failure, in nature, of local causality.
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