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    Quantum mechanics alone implies contextuality. — Carmelics
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    Quantum mechanics alone implies contextuality.

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    • 1.The Kochen-Specker (KS) theorem establishes that QM, VD, and non-contextuality (NC) together imply a contradiction.
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    • 2.Quantum mechanics implies value definiteness (VD).
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    • 3.Therefore, QM combined with VD is inconsistent with NC, so QM must entail the negation of NC (i.e., contextuality).
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    • 1.P2 is false: QM does not imply value definiteness; orthodox Copenhagen interpretations deny that unmeasured observables have definite values.
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    • 2.If VD is not a consequence of QM but an additional assumption, the KS contradiction indicts VD+NC jointly, not QM alone.
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    • 3.The most QM alone entails is a disjunction: either abandon VD or abandon NC, leaving contextuality as one option, not a forced conclusion.
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    • 1.Bohmian mechanics is a well-developed quantum theory that is explicitly contextual yet derives contextuality from nonlocal hidden variables, not from QM's formalism alone.
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    • 2.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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    • 3.The existence of empirically equivalent formulations that locate contextuality differently undermines the claim that QM alone is the source.
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    Recently it has been argued that the denial of VD is inconsistent with QM itself (Held 2008, 2012a, 2012b). The argument tries to show that VD is a consequence of the theory itself (QM → VD). If this is indeed the case we have — recalling that KS establish that QM & VD & NC implies a contradiction — an argument for the claim that QM alone implies contextuality. Since, in that case, QM also implies VD we get, all in all, an argument for the claim that QM must be interpreted in terms of co
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