 The view that a quantum state describes physical reality is sometimes called \(\psi\)-ontic, by contrast with a \(\psi\)-epistemic view that it represents an agent’s incomplete information about an underlying physical state. When Harrigan and Spekkens (2010) originally defined these terms they applied them only to what they called ontic models of quantum theory. But others have since used them more broadly to classify alternative views of quantum states outside of the ontological models framework. QBists and pragmatists are not the only ones to adopt a view that is neither \(\psi\)-ontic nor \(\psi\)-epistemic in these broader senses. Other views share the pragmatist thought that quantum states aren’t a function of any agent’s actual epistemic state because quantum state assignments are required to conform to objective standards of correctness. This section covers two such views.