{ "id": "quant-ph/0406014", "version": "v2", "published": "2004-06-02T19:32:05.000Z", "updated": "2005-01-03T19:21:23.000Z", "title": "On Counterfactuals and Contextuality", "authors": [ "Karl Svozil" ], "comment": "10 pages, presented at Foundations of Probability and Physics-3, Vaexjoe University, Sweden, June 7-12, 2004", "journal": "AIP Conference Proceedings 750. Foundations of Probability and Physics-3, ed. by Andrei Khrennikov (American Institute of Physics,Melville, NY, 2005) pp. 351-360.", "doi": "10.1063/1.1874586", "categories": [ "quant-ph" ], "abstract": "Counterfactual reasoning and contextuality is defined and critically evaluated with regard to its nonempirical content. To this end, a uniqueness property of states, explosion views and link observables are introduced. If only a single context associated with a particular maximum set of observables can be operationalized, then a context translation principle resolves measurements of different contexts.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v2", "updated": "2005-01-03T19:21:23.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "03.65.-w", "02.50.Cw" ], "keywords": [ "contextuality", "context translation principle resolves measurements", "counterfactual", "uniqueness property", "link observables" ], "tags": [ "journal article" ], "publication": { "publisher": "AIP", "journal": "AIP Conf. Proc." }, "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 10, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2005AIPC..750..351S" } } }