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“Nonlocality” is today a catchword known not only to physicists but also to a public generally interested in science. Moreover, it is attracting the attention of philosophers since it seems to go beyond the scope of today’s physics or even to lead to a new understanding of the world.
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Pliska, P. (1997). Nonlocality and the Principle of Free Experimentation. In: Driessen, A., Suarez, A. (eds) Mathematical Undecidability, Quantum Nonlocality and the Question of the Existence of God. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5428-4_8
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