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    Causal contextuality does not imply that the ontological status of the physical properties involved must change to relational

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    • If a property in an object is brought about via interaction with another object, it can still be a property the object has for itself after the interaction
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    • 1.Relational properties in physics (e.g., spin in QM) are defined only relative to measurement contexts, not as intrinsic post-interaction residues.
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    • 2.If a property's determinate value requires specifying a relational context, then by standard metaphysical criteria it is a relational, not intrinsic, property.
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    • 3.The Kochen-Specker theorem entails that no assignment of definite values to observables is context-independent, making all such values irreducibly relational.
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    • 1.Tarski-style semantic externalism and Rovelli's relational quantum mechanics both ground property-attribution in observer-system relations, not in object-internal states.
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    • 2.If causal contextuality systematically prevents any context-free specification of a property's value, the property cannot be coherently classified as self-standing or intrinsic.
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    If an interpreter wanted to defend causal contextuality, this would entail abandoning FM, at least for observables of the type f(Q) (non-maximal observables): Since their values causally depend on the presence of certain measurement arrangements, these arrangements are causally necessary for the values to come about, thus the values cannot be present before the system-apparatus interaction, and FM is violated. As an advantage of causal contextualism the following might be pointed out. It does n
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