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Original article (peer-reviewed)
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Journal
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Foundations of Physics
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Volume (Issue)
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44(6)
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Page(s)
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594 - 609
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Title of proceedings
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Foundations of Physics
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DOI
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10.1007/s10701-014-9796-y
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Open Access
Abstract
A fair amount of recent scholarship has been concerned with correcting a supposedly wrong, but wide-spread, assessment of the consequences of the empirical falsification of Bell-type inequalities. In particular, it has been claimed that Bell-type inequalities follow from “locality tout court” without additional assumptions such as “realism” or “hidden variables”. However, this line of reasoning conflates restrictions on the spatio-temporal relation between causes and their effects (“locality”) and the assumption of a cause for every event (“causality”). It thus fails to recognize a substantial restriction of the class of theories that is falsified through Bell-type inequalities.
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