Quantum scholasticism: On quantum contexts, counterfactuals, and the absurdities of quantum omniscience

2007/11/30 by Karl Svozil
Arts and Humanities · Computer Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Philosophy and History of Science #Quantum Information and Cryptography #Quantum Mechanics and Applications #quant-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/j.ins.2008.06.012

published as Information Sciences 179, 535-541 (2009) · presented at Quantum Logic and Probability 2007, November 22 - 25, 2007, Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava, Slovak Republic

openalex publication_date 2008/06/27 · arxiv created 2008/12/19 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

Unlike classical information, quantum knowledge is restricted to the outcome of measurements of maximal observables corresponding to single contexts.

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