Bearers of properties in the quantum mechanical description of nature

Abstract

Responding to the question of how would we have to speak about the world if a realist interpretation of quantum physics is attempted, here we propose a vocabulary built on the notion of a “bearer of properties” (BP) for talking about the physicists’ models of the atomic systems used to interpret the phenomenal evidence. We analyze the “mysterious” nature of the quantum world by contrasting this discourse to that engendered by the classical ontological expectations and use it to discuss the view of Bohr, the Bell results, and the difficulties in moving from a description of the model to a discourse about the nature of quantum microsystems themselves.