Post #1581611
2025-08-06 21:18 UTC
@Montaagge
We could be here all day naming realists and antirealists and the passion by which they prosecuted various positions within each umbrella. Rand, like many others that could be named on both sides, was pretty much absent in the 80s and 90s Science Wars. You can whine about "pomposity" -- I have subchapters addressing both the antirealist charges that realism is too arrogant and that it's too humble -- but saying *there is* a reality isn't the same thing as claiming to be its arbiter.
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@rechelon@mastodon.social 2025-08-06 21:20
@Montaagge And I can assure you, there were quite a few very relevant camps arguing that in fact there is no such thing as a single physical reality to substantive impact. I was raised by a leftist faith healer, in a cult that took pride in Feyerabend's defense of faith healers, and have the lingering physical disabilities to show for it.