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abstract: 'In papers published in the 25 years following his famous 1964 proof John Bell refined and reformulated his views on locality and causality. Although his formulations of local causality were in terms of probability, he had little to say about that notion. But assumptions about probability are implicit in his arguments and conclusions. Probability does not conform to these assumptions when quantum mechanics is applied to account for the particular correlations Bell argues are locally inexplicable. This account involves no superluminal action and there is even a sense in which it is local, but it is in tension with the requirement that the direct causes and effects of events are nearby.'
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    Richard A. Healey\
    The University of Arizona
title: 'Local Causality, Probability and Explanation'
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Introduction
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I never met John Bell, but his writings have supplied me with a continual source of new insights as I read and reread them over 40 years. In working toward a rather different understanding of quantum mechanics he has been foremost in my mind as a severe but honest critic of such attempts. We all would love to know what Einstein would have made of Bell’s theorem. I 