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The first derivation of Bell inequalities, which started the quantum mechanical locality discussion, was based on the assumption that measurement outcomes in EPR-Bohm-type experiments are (“deterministic”) functions of the local measuring device settings and the state of the system. Experiment violates the Bell inequalities, and therefore at least one ingredient of the premises of the derivation must be rejected in a satisfactory theoretical account of the experiment.
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Dieks, D. (1998). Locality and Lorentz-Covariance in the Modal Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics. In: Dieks, D., Vermaas, P.E. (eds) The Modal Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics. The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science, vol 60. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5084-2_3
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