{ "id": "2011.04899", "version": "v1", "published": "2020-11-07T11:42:14.000Z", "updated": "2020-11-07T11:42:14.000Z", "title": "Contextuality: At the Borders of Paradox", "authors": [ "Samson Abramsky" ], "comment": "25 pages. Appeared in Categories for the Working Philosopher, ed. Elaine Landry, Oxford University Press, pages 262--287, 2017. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1502.03097, arXiv:1406.7386", "categories": [ "quant-ph", "cs.LO", "math.CT" ], "abstract": "Contextuality is a key feature of quantum mechanics. We present the sheaf-theoretic approach to contextuality introduced by Abramsky and Brandenburger, and show how it covers a range of logical and physical phenomena \"at the borders of paradox\".", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2020-11-07T11:42:14.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "contextuality", "sheaf-theoretic approach", "quantum mechanics", "brandenburger" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 25, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }