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Refutation of Frauchiger-Renner Paradox

Colin James

Published Sep 1, 2019• 0 citations
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Abstract

We evaluate unique conjunctive combinations of four statements, and as doubles and triples, which are not tautologous. This means the experiment is framed on conjectures for a flawed model and form a non tautologous fragment of the universal logic VŁ4.

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