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    Defending causal contextuality entails abandoning FM for ... — Carmelics
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    Defending causal contextuality entails abandoning FM for non-maximal observables of type f(Q)

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    • 1.Under causal contextuality, the values of non-maximal observables causally depend on the presence of certain measurement arrangements
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    • 2.If values causally depend on measurement arrangements, those arrangements are causally necessary for the values to come about
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    • 3.If measurement arrangements are causally necessary for values, the values cannot be present before the system-apparatus interaction
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    • 1.FM can be reinterpreted dispositionally: pre-measurement values are stable dispositions that are only *manifested* through interaction, not created by it.
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    • 2.On a dispositional reading (cf. Mumford, Molnar), causal activation of a disposition does not entail the disposition was absent before activation.
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    • 3.Therefore, causal contextuality and FM are compatible if FM tracks dispositional possession rather than categorical, occurrent value-assignment.
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    • 1.P3 illegitimately conflates causal production of a *determinate outcome* with causal production of the *value itself* as a pre-existing element of reality.
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    • 2.Bohmian mechanics demonstrates that non-maximal observables like spin can be contextual in their measured results while the wavefunction encodes definite pre-interaction structure, preserving a weaker FM.
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    • 3.Hence the argument from causal necessity to the abandonment of FM overgeneralizes: it refutes only a naive categorical FM, not the dispositional or Bohmian variants Valentini and Dürr defend.
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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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