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Ep 106: David Deutsch’s ”The Fabric of Reality” Chapter 4 “Criteria for Reality” Part 2

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Is Realism the Best Explanation?

This defensive realism, I think the most parsimonious way of defending realism is to say it's the best explanation. The reason why idealism fails to be the best explanation is because it ultimately is realism with the additional philosophical assumption that we're just dreaming realism into existence. And I think David has the best way of explaining what it means for something to exist or what it mean for something to be real in the beginning of infinity. That's how we know, that's how we can conclude a thing exists. So that's the end of the episode today. But until next time, bye bye.

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