Ep 106: David Deutsch’s ”The Fabric of Reality” Chapter 4 “Criteria for Reality” Part 2
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What Does Poppa Say About Idealism?
We can argue for realism because it is the best explanation of our metaphysical ontology if we want to use the fancy words. Our best explanation, the most parsimonious way of viewing our experience of the world is that it really exists. Even Descartes and Locke were realists. A philosophical theory competing with realism did not seriously start before Berkeley, Hume, and Cartes. And I think it important that we should be clear why no valid proof of realism can exist.
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