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Anti-realism

In analytic philosophy, anti-realism is the position that the truth of a statement rests on its demonstrability through internal logic mechanisms, such as the context principle or intuitionistic logic, in direct opposition to the realist notion that the truth of a statement rests on its correspondence to an external, independent reality. In anti-realism, …

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related to Bibliography · 21
Anti-realism → Continental Anti-Realism, Harvard University Press, History, Ian Hacking, ISBN, Lee Braver, Michael Dummett, Northwestern University Press, Other Enigmas, Oxford University Press, Philosophy, Platonism, Realism, Samir Okasha, Science, The Social Construction, Thing, This World, Truth, Very Short Introduction
related to Semantic anti-realism · 10
Anti-realism → According, Dummett's, In, Michael Dummett, Platonic, Platonism, Realism, Similarly, The, Thus
related to Moral anti-realism · 9
Anti-realism → In, It, Moral, Some, Specifically, The, The Alethic Thesis, The Metaphysical Thesis, The Semantic Thesis
related to Epistemic anti-realism · 7
Anti-realism → Allan Gibbard, Hartry Field, Just, Matthew Chrisman, Prominent, Simon Blackburn, Thus
related to Metaphysical anti-realism · 7
Anti-realism → But, Conversely, Given, Myth, On, One, The
related to Scientific anti-realism · 2
Anti-realism → In, One
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Anti-realism → position that the truth of a statement rests on its demonstrability through internal logic mechanisms

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mathematical realism philosophy objects moral truth dummett abstract michael metaphysical entities one reality platonism epistemic semantic scientific anti-realist external statement

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Anti-realismis aposition that the truth of a statement rests on its demonstrability through internal logic mechanisms0.90text
'number' have an observer-independent existenceinstance ofrealism is the claim that mathematical entities0.80text
electrons or genesinstance ofentities0.80text
which are not detectable with human senses.One prominent variety of scientific anti-realism is instrumentalisminstance ofentities0.80text
which takes a purely agnostic view towards the existence of unobservable entitiesinstance ofentities0.80text
in which the unobservable entity X serves as an instrument to aid in the success of theory Yinstance ofentities0.80text
does not require proof for the existence or non-existence of X.Anti-representationalismAnti-representationalism rejects the idea that thoughtinstance ofentities0.80text
language function by mirroring or representing an independent realityinstance ofentities0.80text
Anti-realismrelated to BibliographyMichael Dummett0.60section
Anti-realismrelated to BibliographyTruth0.60section
Anti-realismrelated to BibliographyOther Enigmas0.60section
Anti-realismrelated to BibliographyHarvard University Press0.60section

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