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    Challenges→Empirical tests of whether Nature is contextual seem possible

    Disturbance introduced by earlier measurements in a sequence can mimic contextual statistics without any underlying ontological contextuality, as Bohr himself emphasized regarding measurement interference.

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    Bohr(historical reference)
    Niels Bohr was a Danish physicist (1885-1962) who helped develop quantum mechanics and emphasized that we can't separate what we observe from how we measure it.
    Contextual statistics(as used in quantum physics)
    Patterns or patterns in data that appear to depend on the surrounding conditions or how the measurement was set up, rather than reflecting something real about the object itself.
    Measurement interference(as used in quantum mechanics and philosophy of science)
    The way that the act of measuring something can change it—like how checking the air pressure in a tire slightly changes the pressure. In quantum physics, this effect is especially dramatic.
    Ontological
    "Ontological" refers to questions about what actually exists or is real. It's concerned with the fundamental nature of being—asking "What kinds of things are there?" rather than "How do we know about them?" For example, an ontological question might be whether numbers, ideas, or God actually exist as real things, or if they're just human inventions.

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    contextuality(Bohmian mechanics)
    The phenomenon in which the 'result for an operator A' depends on which other commuting operator (B or C) it is measured together with, given that B and C do not commute with each other.

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