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    It is not the case that Bohr's principle of complementarity entails that conjugate observables like position and momentum have no simultaneous definite values, making FUNC's domain of application physically empty for such pairs.

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    • 1.Complementarity concerns measurement outcomes, not ontological reality; unmeasured systems may possess definite conjugate values.
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    • 2.FUNC could apply to the wavefunction or mixed states where both position and momentum have definite formal representations.
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    • 3.Phase space representations and quasi-probability distributions assign joint structure to conjugates, challenging domain-emptiness claims.
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    • 1.Complementarity requires that measuring position destroys momentum information, making simultaneous definite values physically impossible.
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    • 2.If conjugate observables lack simultaneous definite values, any function mapping both to outputs operates on an empty domain.
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    • 3.Quantum mechanics forbids assigning joint probability distributions to conjugate pairs, confirming their joint indefiniteness.
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