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In other words, the 'realism' which constitutes the target of Collingwood's critique is not the ontological thesis that there exist mind independent objects, but the epistemological thesis that there is such a thing as presuppositionless knowledge of reality.
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What they contest is that the entities in these domains exist mind-independently, since they find the notion of mind-independent existence incoherent.
Still, they are anti-realist about Fs since they deny that Fs could exist mind-independently.
Some anti-realists agree that there are Fs but deny that anything could exist mind-independently.
Consider the CVs' belief that there exist mind-independent objects — a belief they share with us.
That the world's constituents exist mind-independently does not entail that its constituents are as science portrays them.
This is perhaps the locus classicus for platonism in the modern sense of that term, that is, for the doctrine that there exist mind-independent abstract entities.
Thus given the transcendental argument he advances, Stroud will be pushed in the direction of the immodest conclusion that it is not possible for us to be mistaken in our belief that there exist mind-independent objects.
She may follow Bas Van Fraassen's lead in holding that 'world' is not a count noun: there are things that exist mind-independently but no entity that is the collection of things that so exist.
You have no proof that such a trend exists, mind you.
No evidence could convince us that some entity existed mind-independently because the very idea of mind-independent existence is incoherent.
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