Epistemological realism is a philosophical position, a subcategory of
objectivism, holding that what can be known about an object exists independently of one's mind.
[ John Haldane, Crispin Wright (eds.), ''Reality, Representation, and Projection'', Oxford University Press, 1993, p. 16.] It is opposed to
epistemological idealism.
Epistemological realism is related directly to the
correspondence theory of truth, which claims that the world exists independently and innately to our perceptions of it. Our sensory data then reflect or correspond to the innate world.
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Epistemic theories of truth
In philosophy and epistemology, epistemic theories of truth are attempts to analyze the notion of truth in terms of epistemic notions such as knowledge, belief, acceptance, verification, justification, and perspective.
A variety of such conce ...
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Epistemic optimism
In the philosophy of science, the pessimistic induction, also known as the pessimistic meta-induction, is an argument which seeks to rebut scientific realism, particularly the scientific realist's notion of epistemic optimism. The pessimistic meta ...
(in the philosophy of science)
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Epistemology
Epistemology (; ), or the theory of knowledge, is the branch of philosophy concerned with knowledge. Epistemology is considered a major subfield of philosophy, along with other major subfields such as ethics, logic, and metaphysics.
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Philosophical realism
References
Philosophical realism
Epistemological theories
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