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Physical entities are ultimately (re)constructed from elementary yes/no events, in particular clicks in detectors or measurement devices recording quanta. Recently, the interpretation of certain such clicks has given rise to unfounded claims which are neither necessary nor sufficient, although they are presented in that way. In particular, clicks can neither inductively support nor “(dis)prove” the Kochen-Specker theorem, which is a formal result that has a deductive proof by contradiction. More importantly, the alleged empirical evidence of quantum contextuality, which is “inferred” from violations of bounds of classical probabilities by quantum correlations, is based on highly nontrivial assumptions, in particular on physical omniscience.
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Svozil, K. (2012). Haunted Quantum Contextuality versus Value Indefiniteness. In: Dinneen, M.J., Khoussainov, B., Nies, A. (eds) Computation, Physics and Beyond. WTCS 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7160. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27654-5_23
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