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A note on Aerts' description of separated entities

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The theoretical scheme proposed by Aerts for describing two separated entities as a whole within a question-state structure is considered. The quoted author claims that two relevant axioms characterizing quantum physics cannot hold for a quantum, nonclassical entity consisting of two quantum separate entities. We suggest that Aerts' theory is not adequate, from the empirical point of view, to describe this situation.

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  1. Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Informazione, Università di Milano, Milan, Italy

    Gianpiero Cattaneo

  2. Dipartimento di Matematica, Università della Calabria, Arcavacata, Italy

    Giuseppe Nisticò

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Cattaneo, G., Nisticò, G. A note on Aerts' description of separated entities. Found Phys 20, 119–132 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00732938

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