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    Challenges→Quantum mechanics alone implies contextuality.

    If contextuality in Bohmian mechanics is grounded in the pilot-wave ontology rather than the Hilbert-space structure, then contextuality is a feature of supplementary interpretive commitments, not of QM per se.

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    Bohmian mechanics(as a competing interpretation of quantum mechanics)
    An alternative way of understanding quantum mechanics (how the tiniest things in the universe behave) developed by physicist David Bohm, where particles have definite positions and are guided by invisible 'pilot waves.'
    Hilbert-space structure(as an alternative foundation for contextuality in quantum mechanics)
    The mathematical framework physicists use to describe quantum mechanics, where all possible states of a quantum system are represented as abstract points in a high-dimensional space.
    Ontology(Carnap argues this enterprise is based on a mistake)
    The philosophical discipline that tries to answer hard questions about what there really is.
    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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    pilot-wave ontology(as the foundational reality claimed by Bohmian mechanics)
    The basic assumption in Bohmian mechanics that reality fundamentally consists of particles guided by invisible waves—'ontology' means what actually exists.
    quantum mechanics (QM)(as the fundamental science being discussed)
    The science of how subatomic particles (electrons, photons, etc.) and atoms behave—the rules are very different from the everyday physics we experience.
    supplementary interpretive commitments(as additional claims beyond the theory itself)
    Extra beliefs or assumptions you have to add on top of a theory to make it work—things beyond what the core theory itself requires.

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