Non-locality and Possible World : A Counterfactual Perspective on Quantum Entanglement
This book uses the formal semantics of counterfactual conditionals to analyze the problem of non-locality in quantum mechanics. Counterfactual conditionals (subjunctive conditionals) enter the analysis of quantum entangled systems in that they enable us to precisely formulate the locality condition...
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De Gruyter
2006
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