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Ideas for ''Ostrich Nominalism' or 'Mirage Realism'?st1=Michael Devitt', 'Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy' and 'Rationality'

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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 2. Realism

22355	In the realist view, the real external world explains how it (and perceptions of it) are possible [Williams,B]
	Full Idea: The substance of the absolute conception [of external reality] lies in the idea that it could nonvacuously explain how it itself, and the various perspectival views of the world, are possible.
	From: Bernard Williams (Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy [1985], p.139), quoted by Reiss,J/Spreger,J - Scientific Objectivity 2.1
	A reaction: I like this. Explanation and understanding strike me as more important than justified truths, and I am struck by the complete inability of subjectivists, relativists and anti-realists to give any kinds of good explanation.