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Single Idea 20727
[filed under theme 7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 2. Realism
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Full Idea
It is the determination of the external world from the practical standpoint, from the standpoint of interest, that may be defined as the common-sense view of reality.
Gist of Idea
Common-sense realism rests on our interests and practical life
Source
Stephen S. Colvin (The Common-Sense View of Reality [1902], p.141)
Book Ref
-: 'Philosophical Review' [-], p.141
A Reaction
Probably more appropriately named the 'pragmatic' view of reality. Relying on what is 'practical' seems to offer some objectivity, but relying on 'interest' rather less so. Can I be an anti-realist when life goes badly, and a realist when it goes well?
The
41 ideas
with the same theme
[commitment to the existence of a reality outside our minds]:
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Reasoning needs to cut nature accurately at the joints
[Plato]
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12568
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God assures me of the existence of external things
[Locke]
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12741
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If experience is just a dream, it is still real enough if critical reason is never deceived
[Leibniz]
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The strongest criterion that phenomena show reality is success in prediction
[Leibniz]
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The division of nature into matter makes distinct appearances, and that presupposes substances
[Leibniz]
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The only indications of reality are agreement among phenomena, and their agreement with necessities
[Leibniz]
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Kant is read as the phenomena being 'contrained' by the noumenon, or 'free-floating'
[Talbot on Kant]
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22014
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Consciousness is not entirely representational, because there are pains, and the self
[Schulze, by Pinkard]
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Kant's thing-in-itself is just an abstraction from our knowledge; things only exist for us
[Hegel, by Bowie]
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22083
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Hegel believe that the genuine categories reveal things in themselves
[Hegel, by Houlgate]
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For me the objective thing-in-itself is the will
[Schopenhauer]
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Realism is basic to the scientific method
[Peirce]
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Realism is the belief that there is something in the being of things corresponding to our reasoning
[Peirce]
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There may be no reality; it's just our one desperate hope of knowing anything
[Peirce]
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We can't be realists, because we don't know what being is
[Nietzsche]
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We can only distinguish self from non-self if there is an inflexible external reality
[Colvin]
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Common-sense realism rests on our interests and practical life
[Colvin]
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If two people perceive the same object, the object of perception can't be in the mind
[Russell]
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Quantum theory shows that exact science does not need dogmatic realism
[Heisenberg]
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Unfortunately for realists, modern logic cannot say that some fact exists
[Sommers]
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Realism is a theory, which explains the convergence of science and the success of language
[Putnam]
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Metaphysical realism is committed to there being one ultimate true theory
[Putnam]
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Realists believe truth is correspondence, independent of humans, is bivalent, and is unique
[Putnam]
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Realism is just the application of two-valued semantics to sentences
[Dummett]
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Dummett saw realism as acceptance of bivalence, rather than of mind-independent entities
[Dummett, by Potter]
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Metaphysical realists are committed to all unambiguous statements being true or not true
[Dummett]
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Philosophers should not presume reality, but only invoke it when language requires it
[Dummett]
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In the realist view, the real external world explains how it (and perceptions of it) are possible
[Williams,B]
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Kripke's metaphysics (essences, kinds, rigidity) blocks the slide into sociology
[Kripke, by Ladyman/Ross]
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Realist Conceptualists accept that our interests affect our concepts
[Wiggins]
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Conceptualism says we must use our individuating concepts to grasp reality
[Wiggins]
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Realism says that most perceived objects exist, and have some of their perceived properties
[Dancy,J]
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How does a direct realist distinguish a building from Buckingham Palace?
[Lockwood]
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To explain object qualities, primary qualities must be more than mere sources of experience
[McGinn]
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Realism says some of our concepts 'cut nature at the joints'
[Heil]
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Modest realism says there is a reality; the presumptuous view says we can accurately describe it
[Mumford]
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Realists believe in independent objects, correspondence, and fallibility of all theories
[Button]
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For realists it is analytic that truths are grounded in the world
[Cameron]
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Realism says a discourse is true or false, and some of it is true
[Cameron]
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Realism says truths rest on mind-independent reality; truthmaking theories are about which features
[Cameron]
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Indirect realists are cautious about the manifest image, and prefer the scientific image
[Ingthorsson]
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