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Without Niels Bohr, QBism would be nothing. But QBism is not Bohr. This paperattempts to show that, despite a popular misconception, QBism is no minor tweakto Bohr's interpretation of quantum mechanics. It is something quite distinct.Along the way, we lay out three tenets of QBism in some detail: 1) The BornRule---the foundation of what quantum theory means for QBism---is a normativestatement. It is about the decision-making behavior any individual agent shouldstrive for; it is not a descriptive "law of nature" in the usual sense. 2) Allprobabilities, including all quantum probabilities, are so subjective theynever tell nature what to do. This includes probability-1 assignments. Quantumstates thus have no "ontic hold" on the world. 3) Quantum measurement outcomesjust are personal experiences for the agent gambling upon them. Particularly,quantum measurement outcomes are not, to paraphrase Bohr, instances of"irreversible amplification in devices whose design is communicable in commonlanguage suitably refined by the terminology of classical physics." Finally, anexplicit comparison is given between QBism and Bohr with regard to threesubjects: a) The issue of the "detached observer" as it arose in a debatebetween Pauli and Bohr, b) Bohr's reply to Einstein, Podolsky, and Rosen, andc) Bohr's mature notion of "quantum phenomena." At the end, we discuss howBohr's notion of phenomena may have something to offer the philosophy ofWilliam James: A physics from which to further develop his vision of theworld---call it an ontology if you will---in which "new being comes in localspots and patches."

Notwithstanding Bohr, the Reasons for QBism