5953 | For the Cyrenaics experience was not enough to give certainty about reality [Aristippus young, by Plutarch] |
18876 | Berkeley does believe in trees, but is confused about what trees are [Berkeley, by Cameron] |
19386 | Without the subject or the senses, space and time vanish, as their appearances disappear [Kant] |
21445 | Even the most perfect intuition gets no closer to things in themselves [Kant] |
4167 | The knowing subject and the crude matter of the world are both in themselves unknowable [Schopenhauer] |
6949 | If someone doubted reality, they would not actually feel dissatisfaction [Peirce] |
18316 | The grounds for an assertion that the world is only apparent actually establish its reality [Nietzsche] |
22213 | Absolute reality is an absurdity [Husserl] |
20730 | If objects are doubted because their appearances change, that presupposes one object [Colvin] |
20729 | Arguments that objects are unknowable or non-existent assume the knower's existence [Colvin] |
20731 | The idea that everything is relations is contradictory; relations are part of the concept of things [Colvin] |
7545 | Visible things are physical and external, but only exist when viewed [Russell] |
17538 | Quantum theory does not introduce minds into atomic events [Heisenberg] |
23068 | People who really believe anti-realism don't bother to prove it [Cioran] |
17657 | We build our world, and ignore anything that won't fit [Goodman] |
9943 | You can't deny a hypothesis a truth-value simply because we may never know it! [Putnam] |
17648 | It is an illusion to think there could be one good scientific theory of reality [Putnam] |
14214 | If we try to cure the abundance of theories with causal links, this is 'just more theory' [Putnam, by Lewis] |
14205 | The sentence 'A cat is on a mat' remains always true when 'cat' means cherry and 'mat' means tree [Putnam] |
22181 | Putnam says anti-realism is a bad explanation of accurate predictions [Putnam, by Okasha] |
8185 | We can't make sense of a world not apprehended by a mind [Dummett] |
8192 | I no longer think what a statement about the past says is just what can justify it [Dummett] |
3303 | For anti-realists there are no natural distinctions between objects [Dummett, by Benardete,JA] |
8596 | Inability to measure equality doesn't make all lengths unequal [Shoemaker] |
8597 | We couldn't verify the earth's rotation if everyone simultaneously fell asleep [Shoemaker] |
14213 | Anti-realists see the world as imaginary, or lacking joints, or beyond reference, or beyond truth [Lewis] |
7065 | Anti-realists who reduce reality to language must explain the existence of language [Heil] |
9601 | The realist/anti-realist debate is notoriously obscure and fruitless [Williamson] |
10410 | Anti-realists can't explain different methods to measure distance [Swoyer] |
14306 | Anti-realists deny truth-values to all statements, and say evidence and ontology are inseparable [Mumford] |
4711 | Anti-realists say our theories (such as wave-particle duality) give reality incompatible properties [O'Grady] |
6780 | Anti-realism is more plausible about laws than about entities and theories [Bird] |
18693 | Indeterminacy arguments say if a theory can be made true, it has multiple versions [Button] |
18695 | An ideal theory can't be wholly false, because its consistency implies a true model [Button] |
19109 | The anti-realism debate concerns whether indefeasibility is a plausible aim of inquiry [Misak] |
12397 | Said Plato: 'The things that we feel... [Sommers,W] |