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Critique of the Papers of Fine and Suppes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 March 2022

Abner Shimony
Abner Shimony*
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Departments of Philosophy and Physics, Boston University
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‘Bell's Theorem’ is the collective name for a family of arguments, which more accurately should be referred to as ‘Theorems of Bell's Type’, all being variants of the remarkable argument given by J. S. Bell (1964). All of these arguments have the format E & H → I, where E is a description of a type of experimental setup involving pairs of particles emitted from a common source, H is a physical hypothesis which typically expresses some version of “realism” and some version of “locality”, and I is an inequality concerning correlations between particles of a pair. There are differences among theorems of Bell's type regarding the details of the inequality I , which are important in actually carrying out experimental tests. There are differences regarding the arrow—i.e., the procedure whereby I is inferred from E & H.

Type
Part X. Locality and Hidden Variables
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PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association , Volume 1980 , Issue 2: Volume Two: Symposia and Invited Papers 1980 , 1980 , pp. 572 - 580
Copyright
Copyright © 1981 by the Philosophy of Science Association

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This work was supported in part by the National Science Foundation.

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