Semantic realism: A new philosophy for quantum physics

The epistemological position underlying the standard interpretation of quantum physics (QP) can be classified as a form of verificationism: to be precise, empirical verificationism (nontestable physical statements have no meaning). This position can be criticized and maintained to be the deep root of many quantum paradoxes. Semantic Realism proposes an alternative viewpoint, according to which even nontestable statements made up of individually testable statements have a meaning, but quantum laws are not necessarily true in physical contexts that QP itself classifies as nonaccessible. This viewpoint produces a new interpretation of QP which preserves its formal structure and observational interpretation, but invalidates those theorems that aim to prove such puzzling features of this theory as nonlocality and contextuality (Bell and Bell-Kochen-Specker theorems).