Semantic Realism: A New Philosophy for Quantum Physics

The epistemological position underlying thestandard interpretation of quantum physics (QP) can beclassified as a form of verificationism: to be precise,empirical verificationism (nontestable physical statements have no meaning). This position canbe criticized and maintained to be the deep root of manyquantum paradoxes. Semantic Realism proposes analternative viewpoint, according to which evennontestable statements made up of individually testablestatements have a meaning, but quantum laws are notnecessarily true in physical contexts that QP itselfclassifies as nonaccessible. This viewpoint produces a new interpretation of QP which preserves itsformal structure and observational interpretation, butinvalidates those theorems that aim to prove suchpuzzling features of this theory as nonlocality and contextuality (Bell and Bell-Kochen-Speckertheorems).