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    Supports→Postulating that the properties a subsystem has as a separated system are identical to the properties it has as a subsystem of composite systems leads to inconsistency.

    Holism about quantum systems, defended by Teller (1986) and Howard (1989), entails that entangled composites possess non-supervenient relational properties irreducible to their parts.

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    Key Terms

    Entangled composites(as used in quantum mechanics)
    In quantum physics, a combination of particles that are mysteriously connected to each other in such a way that measuring one instantly affects the others, no matter the distance.
    Holism(Mid-twentieth-century individualism/holism debates)
    A position in the individualism/holism debates that treats social entities as irreducible to individualistic entities, without denying the existence of the non-social
    Irreducible to their parts(as used in metaphysics)
    Cannot be completely explained or broken down into facts about individual components—you need to understand the whole system itself.
    Non-supervenient relational properties(as used in metaphysics)
    Characteristics or qualities of a system that depend on how its parts relate to each other, but can't be determined just by knowing everything about those individual parts.

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    Quantum systems(in physics)
    Objects or processes so tiny (like atoms or electrons) that they follow strange rules where things can be in multiple states at once until observed.
    Teller (1986) and Howard (1989)(as used in citations)
    Philosophers of physics (Paul Teller and Don Howard) who published arguments in those years defending the idea that quantum wholes can't be reduced to their parts.

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