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On the covering law in quantal proposition systems

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A recent justification of the covering law by Jauch and Piron founded on the existence of ideal measurements of the first kind is shown to contain a gap. This gap is closed by an additional assumption about such measurements.

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Ochs, W. On the covering law in quantal proposition systems. Commun.Math. Phys. 25, 245–252 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01877592

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