Annals of the Japan Association for Philosophy of Science
Online ISSN : 1884-1228
Print ISSN : 0453-0691
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A Difficulty of Local Truth-Value Assignment in Contextual Approach(Issues in the Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics (2))
Katsuaki HIGASHI
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2009 Volume 18 Pages 45-56

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In order to deal with Kochen and Specker's no-go result, van Fraassen invoked 'splitting' of non-maximal observable depending on 'context'. In his contextual approach there are different physical quantities corresponding to a non-maximal operator. Such physical quantities are different, so those values are not required to coincide. However, Heywood and Redhead showed the impossibility of local truth-value assignment in contextual approach. Their argument is restricted to finite dimensional and non-relativistic case. In this paper we shall show a similar no-go result in more general framework (von Neumann algebra). Also, our result will be applied to Algebraic quantum field theory.
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