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arxiv: 1611.05021 · v1 · pith:TSJ7HH4Bnew · submitted 2016-11-15 · 🪐 quant-ph · cond-mat.mes-hall

The contextuality loophole is fatal for Bell inequalities: Reply to a comment by I. Schmelzer

classification 🪐 quant-ph cond-mat.mes-hall
keywords loopholebellcontextualitydifferentinequalitiesnieuwenhuizenprobabilityschmelzer
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Ilya Schmelzer wrote recently: {\it Nieuwenhuizen argued that there exists some "contextuality loophole" in Bell's theorem. This claim in unjustified}. It is made clear that this arose from attaching a meaning to the title and the content of the paper different from the one intended by Nieuwenhuizen. "Contextual loophole" means only that if the supplementary parameters describing measuring instruments are correctly introduced, Bell and Bell-type inequalities may not be proven. It is also stressed that a hidden variable model suffers from a "contextuality loophole" if it tries to describe different sets of incompatible experiments using a unique probability space and a unique joint probability distribution.

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