Commutativity, Comeasurability, and Contextuality in the Kochen-Specker Arguments

Philosophy of Science 88 (3):483-510 (2021)
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I will argue that Kochen-Specker arguments do not provide an algebraic proof for quantum contextuality since, for the argument to be effective, operators must be uniquely associated with measur...

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