On Historical Background to the Ontic Breakthrough.I Polemic Defense of   Quantum Reality
  After stating the author's ontic position, a collage of relevant thoughts of some distinguished foundationally-minded physicists are quoted and polemically commented upon. Thus, a kind of historical background of the recent ontic breakthrough is given. The brealthrough itself is presented in Part II. 
Fedor Herbut
quant-ph physics.hist-ph