Quantum nonlocality as an axiom

@article{Popescu1994QuantumNA,
  title={Quantum nonlocality as an axiom},
  author={Sandu Popescu and Daniel Rohrlich},
  journal={Foundations of Physics},
  year={1994},
  volume={24},
  pages={379-385}
}
In the conventional approach to quantum mechanics, indeterminism is an axiom and nonlocality is a theorem. We consider inverting the logical order, making nonlocality an axiom and indeterminism a theorem. Nonlocal “superquantum” correlations, preserving relativistic causality, can violate the CHSH inequality more strongly than any quantum correlations. 
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