The Differences Between Realists and Antirealists

Post-cantian antirealism claims that the world we experience owes its basic structure to categories and structures of our thought. What exists and does not exist depends on how we carve up reality so to speak in terms of the concepts we construct, he says. Some people see them as closet idealists; one way they can resist being labeled is by pointing out that the distinction between mental and non-mental,. which is central to idealism, is itself part of our conceptual schemes.