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Following the original paper of Bell1 the connection between the EPRargument for the incompleteness of quantum mechanics2 and Bell’s inequality is usually established by saying that the former suggests the existence of a local hidden-variable theory for quantum mechanics whereas the latter then allows to show that such a theory does not exist.3.
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Scheibe, E. (1991). EPR-Situation and Bell’s Inequality. In: Spohn, W., Van Fraassen, B.C., Skyrms, B. (eds) Existence and Explanation. The University of Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science, vol 49. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3244-2_9
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