The problem of contextuality and the impossibility of experimental metaphysics thereof

DOI10.1016/j.shpsb.2011.06.001zbMath1239.81020arXiv1012.3052MaRDI QIDQ426020

Ronnie Hermens

Publication date: 10 June 2012

Published in: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. Part B. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1012.3052

zbMATH Keywords

contextuality; Kochen-Specker theorem; finite precision

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

81P13: Contextuality in quantum theory

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