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Three arguments based on the Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger (GHZ) proof of the nonexistence of local hidden variables are presented. The first is a description of a simple game which a team that uses the GHZ method will always win. The second uses counterfactuals in an attempt to show that quantum theory is nonlocal in a stronger sense than is implied by the nonexistence of local hidden variables and the third describes peculiar features of time-symmetrized counterfactuals in quantum theory.
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Vaidman, L. Variations on the Theme of the Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger Proof. Foundations of Physics 29, 615–630 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1018868326838
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