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    It is not the case that Some failures of repeatability in physical experiments are genuinely due to quantum indeterminism, not merely failures of experimental control.

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    • 1.The epistemic inaccessibility of true initial conditions is indistinguishable in practice from ontological indeterminism (Laplace's demon argument).
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    • 2.No experiment can rule out hidden classical variables as the source of variance, as Bohm's 1952 pilot-wave theory demonstrates empirically.
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    • 1.Decoherence theory shows that quantum indeterminacy is effectively suppressed at macro-scales by environmental entanglement before influencing classical outcomes.
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    • 2.Coin flips and hard drive failures operate at scales where thermal noise—a classical, deterministic-in-principle phenomenon—vastly dominates quantum variance.
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    • 1.At least some failures of repeatability in systems such as hard drives or coin-flipping experiments are attributable to quantum indeterminism.
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    • 2.These failures cannot be fully eliminated by isolating the system or establishing identical initial conditions.
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