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    Challenges→The holistic contextualist view that f(Q) is well-defined only given a Q-measuring apparatus faces a dilemma concerning the status of Q in a P-measurement situation.

    If Q lacks a value in the P-measurement situation, the interpretation is no longer a hidden variables interpretation of the relevant type, and blocking the Kochen-Specker argument becomes unnecessary.

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    Hidden variables interpretation(quantum mechanics philosophy)
    A theory in quantum physics suggesting that particles have definite properties (hidden from us) even before we measure them, rather than only gaining definite properties when measured.
    Kochen-Specker argument(quantum mechanics philosophy)
    A logical proof by physicists Simon Kochen and Ernst Specker showing that certain hidden variables theories lead to contradictions, making them impossible to be true.

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    P-measurement situation(quantum mechanics)
    A specific scenario or context in which a physicist is measuring a particular property (represented by 'P') of a quantum particle.
    Value (in measurement context)(quantum mechanics philosophy)
    A definite numerical result or property that something has—in quantum physics, whether a particle has a specific measurable outcome before or at the moment of measurement.

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    (a) We might think that v(f(Q)) just is not a self-sustained physical property, but one which ontologically depends on the presence of another property v(Q). (Recall that in the proof of FUNC v(f(Q)) is constructed from v(Q).) But, since the position does not reject questions about values of f(Q) in a P-measurement situation as illegitimate (because it does not trade on a notion of an observable being well-defined in one context only!), this seems to lead to new and pressing questions, to say t

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