Why Does Spin Add? Quantum Mechanics Explained

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Why is it that spin adds? I mean sure, the classical analogy tells us that angular momentum is additive, but that I feel is a cop out. What inside of the formalism for quantum mechanics tells us that we should be adding spin of two particles?
 
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