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A note on the so-called yes-no experiments and the foundations of quantum mechanics

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Bjørnestad, Ø. A note on the so-called yes-no experiments and the foundations of quantum mechanics. Synthese 29, 243–253 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00484960

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