Value-Definiteness and Contextualism: Cut and Paste with Hilbert Space
PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1992:91 - 103 (1992)
| Abstract | I begin with an appeal to the GHZ/Mermin state to illustrate the allure of contextualism and value-definiteness. I then point out that standard contextualism, with its special status for non-degenerate operators, faces some embarrassing questions. Further, there is an alternative that apparently does not have the same problems. A modest re-pasting of Hilbert space makes the honors almost even between these two varieties. The paper closes with some reflections on the peculiarities of contextualism. | |||||||||
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