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Non-realism: Deep Thought or a Soft Option?

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The claim that the observation of a violation of a Bell inequality leads to an alleged alternative between nonlocality and non-realism is annoying because of the vagueness of the second term.

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Gisin, N. Non-realism: Deep Thought or a Soft Option?. Found Phys 42, 80–85 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10701-010-9508-1

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