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At the suggestion of the organizers of this conference, I shall start by discussing the genesis of the result known as the Kochen-Specker Paradox or K-S Theorem and its relation to Bell’s Theorem. In the second part of my talk I deal with more recent results obtained with John Conway on the geometry and logic of quantum mechanics, which throw new light on these old results.
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Conway, J., Kochen, S. (2002). The Geometry of the Quantum Paradoxes. In: Quantum [Un]speakables. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-05032-3_18
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