7953 | Reasoning needs to cut nature accurately at the joints [Plato] |
12568 | God assures me of the existence of external things [Locke] |
12741 | If experience is just a dream, it is still real enough if critical reason is never deceived [Leibniz] |
12740 | The strongest criterion that phenomena show reality is success in prediction [Leibniz] |
13184 | The division of nature into matter makes distinct appearances, and that presupposes substances [Leibniz] |
13188 | The only indications of reality are agreement among phenomena, and their agreement with necessities [Leibniz] |
7416 | Kant is read as the phenomena being 'contrained' by the noumenon, or 'free-floating' [Talbot on Kant] |
22014 | Consciousness is not entirely representational, because there are pains, and the self [Schulze, by Pinkard] |
22059 | Kant's thing-in-itself is just an abstraction from our knowledge; things only exist for us [Hegel, by Bowie] |
22083 | Hegel believe that the genuine categories reveal things in themselves [Hegel, by Houlgate] |
21470 | For me the objective thing-in-itself is the will [Schopenhauer] |
21492 | Realism is basic to the scientific method [Peirce] |
19240 | Realism is the belief that there is something in the being of things corresponding to our reasoning [Peirce] |
19239 | There may be no reality; it's just our one desperate hope of knowing anything [Peirce] |
7153 | We can't be realists, because we don't know what being is [Nietzsche] |
20726 | We can only distinguish self from non-self if there is an inflexible external reality [Colvin] |
20727 | Common-sense realism rests on our interests and practical life [Colvin] |
21538 | If two people perceive the same object, the object of perception can't be in the mind [Russell] |
17545 | Quantum theory shows that exact science does not need dogmatic realism [Heisenberg] |
18900 | Unfortunately for realists, modern logic cannot say that some fact exists [Sommers] |
6280 | Realism is a theory, which explains the convergence of science and the success of language [Putnam] |
17644 | Metaphysical realism is committed to there being one ultimate true theory [Putnam] |
2349 | Realists believe truth is correspondence, independent of humans, is bivalent, and is unique [Putnam] |
9869 | Realism is just the application of two-valued semantics to sentences [Dummett] |
22297 | Dummett saw realism as acceptance of bivalence, rather than of mind-independent entities [Dummett, by Potter] |
15049 | Metaphysical realists are committed to all unambiguous statements being true or not true [Dummett] |
8184 | Philosophers should not presume reality, but only invoke it when language requires it [Dummett] |
22355 | In the realist view, the real external world explains how it (and perceptions of it) are possible [Williams,B] |
14896 | Kripke's metaphysics (essences, kinds, rigidity) blocks the slide into sociology [Kripke, by Ladyman/Ross] |
16523 | Realist Conceptualists accept that our interests affect our concepts [Wiggins] |
16524 | Conceptualism says we must use our individuating concepts to grasp reality [Wiggins] |
2781 | Realism says that most perceived objects exist, and have some of their perceived properties [Dancy,J] |
2969 | How does a direct realist distinguish a building from Buckingham Palace? [Lockwood] |
22427 | To explain object qualities, primary qualities must be more than mere sources of experience [McGinn] |
7045 | Realism says some of our concepts 'cut nature at the joints' [Heil] |
14334 | Modest realism says there is a reality; the presumptuous view says we can accurately describe it [Mumford] |
18692 | Realists believe in independent objects, correspondence, and fallibility of all theories [Button] |
18881 | For realists it is analytic that truths are grounded in the world [Cameron] |
18875 | Realism says a discourse is true or false, and some of it is true [Cameron] |
18878 | Realism says truths rest on mind-independent reality; truthmaking theories are about which features [Cameron] |
22633 | Indirect realists are cautious about the manifest image, and prefer the scientific image [Ingthorsson] |