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Thomistic Metaphysical Realism Its Importance And Viability Today | Mats Wahlberg

Angelicum Thomistic Institute

CHAPTER

The Anti-Realism Argument

From a Thomist perspective, only a theory whose concepts formally match the objective structure of the world is true. Hillary Putnam's so-called model theoretic argument against realists and Willard van Ormond-Quine’s so-called indeterminacy of translation arguments are less threatening than naturalistic forms of realism.

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