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View SchemaContextual Value-definiteness and the Kochen-Specker Paradox
| Authors | Ken Williams |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0512052 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0512052 |
Abstract
Compatibility between the realist tenants of value-definiteness and causality is called into question by several realism impossibility proofs in which their formal elements are shown to conflict. We review how this comes about in the Kochen-Specker and von Neumann proofs and point out a connection between their key assumptions: a constraint on realist causality via additivity in the latter proof, noncontextuality in the former. We conclude that value-definiteness and contextuality are indeed not mutually exclusive.
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