Abstract
Since Bub’s(1) article seems to be based on a misunderstanding of Bell’s locality posutlate,(2) it appears to be desirable to spell out this postulate more explicitly than was done before.
Bub’s criticism of Bell’s locality postulate is discussed. The locality postulate is explained, and it is shown that Bub is in fact arguing against a class of theories which are subject to stronger restrictions than this postulate, and therefore his “refutation” of the latter is misleading.
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Freedman, S., Wigner, E.P. (1997). On Bub’s Misunderstanding of Bell’s Locality Argument. In: Wightman, A.S. (eds) Part I: Particles and Fields. Part II: Foundations of Quantum Mechanics. The Scientific Papers, vol A / 3. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-09203-3_60
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