ABSTRACT
The Reality question gained prominence within the professional scientific community mainly after the advent of quantum mechanics (QM) and its alleged incompleteness', supposedly proved by the 1935 Einstein, Podolsky and Rosen (EPR) paper, followed by a powerful rejoinder by Bohr himself. The Bohr-Einstein controversy may be viewed as a disagreement about the proper interpretation of the standard formalism of QM. QM is non-atomist holism, while Einstein's view is atomistic. QM is a kind of non-atomist holism in a unique sense in the atomism of the Jainas or the logical atomism of Wittgenstein as presented in his Tractatus (TLP) are atomistic, yet a form of holism at the same time. In short, QM rejects the notion of pure objectivity as a myth, whereas for Einstein, the notion of an objective reality, free of all traces of subjectivism in it, is the prime requirement of a sound scientific methodology.
