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Correlations, Contextuality and Quantum Logic

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Quantum theory is a probabilistic theory that embodies notoriously striking correlations, stronger than any that classical theories allow but not as strong as those of hypothetical ‘super-quantum’ theories. This raises the question ‘Why the quantum?’—whether there is a handful of principles that account for the character of quantum probability. We ask what quantum-logical notions correspond to this investigation. This project isn’t meant to compete with the many beautiful results that information-theoretic approaches have yielded but rather aims to complement that work.

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  1. One of John Wheeler’s ‘Really Big Questions.’

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  1. Philosophy Department, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 20742, USA

    Allen Stairs & Jeffrey Bub

  2. Institute for Physical Science and Technology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 20742, USA

    Jeffrey Bub

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Stairs, A., Bub, J. Correlations, Contextuality and Quantum Logic. J Philos Logic 42, 483–499 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10992-013-9272-8

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