Stapp's theorem without counterfactual commitments: Why it fails nonetheless

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 24 (5):791-814 (1993)
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Stapp's attempt to derive Bell's Inequality from a weak locality condition while retaining indeterminism, requires careful scrutiny to ensure unambiguous definitions and valid reasoning. Such scrutiny reveals that the argument is fallacious. This result is obtained without commitment to any particular formal analysis of truth conditions for counterfactuals nor to conditions for world similarity.

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