**[In defence of non-ontic accounts of quantum states]{}**\
Simon Friederich\
`email@simonfriederich.eu`\
Philosophisches Seminar, Universität Göttingen, Humboldtallee 19, D-37073 Göttingen, Germany

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Keywords: quantum states, quantum probabilities, anthropocentric notions, micro/macro divide, explanation and prediction\

Introduction
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The measurement problem and the problem of quantum “non-locality”, that is, the claimed tension between quantum theory and relativity theory, are widely regarded as the most outstanding difficulties in the foundations of quantum mechanics. Possible ways to react to these problems (or “paradoxes”) range from changing the dynamics (as in GRW theory) to adding determinate particle and field configurations (as in pilot wave approaches) to adopting a non-standard picture of our world according to which our universe (or our mind) constantly splits into an immense number of branches (as in variants of the Everett interpretation). These are attempts to *solve* the paradoxes, either by altering the formalism of the theory or by radically altering our picture of the world so that at least one of the assumptions necessary to derive the paradoxes no longer holds.

The present paper investigates accounts of quantum theory which approach the paradoxes from an entirely different perspective. Their main ambition is to *dissolve* the paradoxes by proposing a perspective on 