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7 - Topos-based logic for quantum systems and bi-Heyting algebras

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 June 2016

Andreas Döring
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Jennifer Chubb
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University of San Francisco
Ali Eskandarian
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George Washington University, Washington DC
Valentina Harizanov
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George Washington University, Washington DC
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