 For other authors, rejection of realism seems to amount primarily to an avowal of operationalism. If all one asks of a theory is that it produce the correct probabilities for outcomes of experiments, eschewing all questions about what sort of physical reality gives rise to these outcomes, then this undercuts the motivation of the analysis that leads to Bell’s theorem. In this sense of “realism”, it is not an assumption of the theorem but a motivation for formulating it. 