9 ideas
20728 | Metaphysics is hopeless with its present epistemology; common-sense realism is needed [Colvin] |
6782 | Realism is the only philosophy of science that doesn't make the success of science a miracle [Putnam] |
6564 | To affirm 'p and not-p' is to have mislearned 'and' or 'not' [Quine] |
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] |
20729 | Arguments that objects are unknowable or non-existent assume the knower's existence [Colvin] |
20730 | If objects are doubted because their appearances change, that presupposes one object [Colvin] |
20731 | The idea that everything is relations is contradictory; relations are part of the concept of things [Colvin] |
22181 | Putnam says anti-realism is a bad explanation of accurate predictions [Putnam, by Okasha] |