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arXiv:2209.01237 · Foundations of Physics

A Critical Analysis of ‘Relative Facts Do Not Exist: Relational Quantum Mechanics Is Incompatible with Quantum Mechanics’ by Jay Lawrence, Marcin Markiewicz and Marek Źukowski

Aurélien Drezet

Published Dec 11, 2023• 2 citations
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10.1007/s10701-023-00743-5

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