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    It is not the case that Quantum mechanics alone implies 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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    • 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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