Is there an additional assumption in the PBR theorem?

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zonde said:
I don't know if there is some general rule about possibility to implement some measurement.

Any set of orthogonal vectors that span a Hilbert space must be eigenvectors of some Hermitian operator on that Hilbert space.
 

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