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On Bub's misunderstanding of Bell's locality argument

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Bub's criticism of Bell's locality postulate is discussed. The locality postulate is explained, and it is shown that Bub is in fact arguing against a class of theories which are subject to stronger restrictions than this postulate, and therefore his “refutation” of the latter is misleading.

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  1. Physics Department, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey

    S. Freedman & E. Wigner

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Freedman, S., Wigner, E. On Bub's misunderstanding of Bell's locality argument. Found Phys 3, 457–458 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00709113

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