 It is Mermin’s sense that seems to be most widely used in the current literature. In this sense, local realism, applied to the set-up of the Bell experiments, amounts to the conjunction of Parameter Independence (PI) and outcome determinism (OD). Now, it is true that, if PI and OD hold, so does factorizability (F), and hence the Bell inequalities. But the condition OD is stronger than what is required, as the conjunction of PI and the strictly weaker condition OI also suffice. Thus, to say that violations of Bell inequalities rule out local realistic theories, with “realism” identified as outcome determinism, is true but misleading, as it may suggest that one can retain locality by rejecting “realism” in the sense of outcome determinism. However, if one accepts the supplementary assumptions, one is obliged to reject not merely the conjunction of OD and PI, but the weaker condition of factorizability, which contains no assumption regarding predetermined outcomes of experiments.