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Within the contextual realism in respect to the philosophy of physics, we focus on a correct understanding of the concept of physical reality, the necessity of taking into account a categorical distinction between the ideal and the real, and the context dependence of ontology of physical reality. The problem of theoretical access to physical reality, or the problem of a “gap” between a physical theory and reality (i.e. theory application), is a pseudo-problem. This is an instantiation of the Wittgensteinian rule-following problem. In particular, the quantum “measurement problem” is a pseudo-problem. The dualism of the quantum observer and the observed system is rejected. At the same time, there is a difference between them. However, this difference is not substantial, but categorical, and depends on a point of view. The contextual realism makes it possible to explain quantum correlations causally and locally as correlations in the context.