Anti-realism or pro-something else? Response to Deichsel
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In those parts of his paper that have the clearest bearing upon my contributions, Simon Deichsel 1) elaborates various conceptions of realism; 2) declares himself an anti-realist of a specific sort; 3) seeks to identify and criticise pragmatic aspects of my justification for adopting a realist orientation; and 4) argues that his anti-realist perspective is preferable to realism. An immediate problem with Deichsel’s project, if intended as a critique of my own realist orientation, is that the sort of realism against which his anti-realism is oppositionally defined is not the version of realism I maintain. In fact the only one of Deichsel’s formulations that I unambiguously accept as a version of realism is (in his terms) ontological realism. Realism as I understand the term is about existence. It is ontological in nature. At its most basic, it posits the existence of an ‘external’ reality. So understood, realism is not a theory of knowledge, or of language, or even of truth. Indeed so formulated it says nothing about knowledge or truth. In particular it does not commit anyone to the correspondence theory of truth, or indeed to any other theory or conception of truth. In fact it is not a semantic theory at all.
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