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The Meaning of Elements of Reality and Quantum Counterfactuals -- Reply to Kastner

L. Vaidman

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发表信息：: Found.Phys. 29 (1999) 865-876

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This paper is the answer to the paper by Kastner [Found. Phys., to be published, quant-ph/9807037] in which she continued the criticism of the counterfactual usage of the Aharonov-Bergman-Lebowitz rule in the framework of the time-symmetrized quantum theory, in particular, by analyzing the three-box ``paradox''. It is argued that the criticism is not sound. Paradoxical features of the three-box example has been explained. It is explained that the elements of reality in the framework of time-symmetrized quantum theory are counterfactual statements and, therefore, even conflicting elements of reality can be associated with a single particle. It is shown how such ``counterfactual'' elements of reality can be useful in the analysis of a physical experiment (the three-box example). The validity of Kastner's application of the consistent histories approach to the time-symmetrized counterfactuals is questioned.

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