A theory that denies that the specification of a physical system given by a state described by quantum mechanics is a complete specification. A successful hidden-variables theory has never been constructed. There are important considerations preventing the construction of a simple hidden-variables theory, notably Bell’s theorem. and Leggett’s theorem. Leggett’s theorem is concerned with nonlocal hidden-variables theories, i.e. theories in which hidden parameters can affect parts of the system in arbitrarily distant regions simultaneously. A local hidden-variables theory is a hidden-variables theory that does not satisfy this definition.