'Local Realistic' Views Of The World Through Systemic Functional Linguistics

Gribbin (1990: 222-3):

[The theoretical physicist] D'Espagnat says that our everyday view of reality is based on three fundamental assumptions.  First, that there are real things that exist regardless of whether we observe them; second, that it is legitimate to draw general conclusions from consistent observations or experiments; and third, that no influence can propagate faster than light, which he calls "locality". Together, these fundamental assumptions are the basis of "local realistic" views of the world.

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From the perspective of Systemic Functional Linguistic theory, the first of these assumptions involves an epistemological error, and it this that the experiments of quantum physics disconfirms.  Things and existing are meanings — participants and processes — and meanings are distinctions made within semiotic systems that construe experience.