Realism

• View about the nature of reality
  • The world exists independent of the mind
• Can we prove idealism is false?
  • If not, then we can't know for sure that there's an external world
• Direct realism
• Indirect realism
• The predictive success of science would be a statistical miracle if our beliefs didn't correspond to the world
  • Hard to explain if you aren't a realist

Philosophy Metaphysics