  We discuss the role of counter-factual meaningfulness (a weaker cousin of
"counter-factual definiteness") as a premise in the derivation of the Bell and
CHSH inequalities. The basic question motivating the discussion is this: can
the CHSH inequality, unlike the original Bell inequality, be derived without
making a hidden-variables (or equivalent counter-factual definiteness)
assumption? We answer, somewhat tentatively, in the negative, and suggest that
an appropriately-modified version of the EPR argument is needed to rigorously
establish that the empirical violation of Bell-type inequalities can only be
blamed on the failure, in nature, of local causality.
