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[filed under theme 7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 2. Realism ]

Full Idea

If there is any reality, then it consists of this: that there is in the being of things something which corresponds to the process of reasoning.

Gist of Idea

Realism is the belief that there is something in the being of things corresponding to our reasoning

Source

Charles Sanders Peirce (Reasoning and the Logic of Things [1898], III)

Book Ref

Peirce,Charles Sanders: 'Reasoning and the Logic of Things', ed/tr. Ketner,K.L. [Harvard 1992], p.161


A Reaction

A nice definition of realism, a little different from usual. I belief that the normal logic of daily thought corresponds (in its rules and connectives) to the way the world is. We evaluate success in logic by truth-preservation.