Jayson_Virissimo comments on How to deal with non-realism? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Jayson_Virissimo 26 May 2012 10:17:22AM 1 point [-]

Okay, it has become clear to me that you, the OP, and I are all have different definitions of "realism" in mind. Furthermore, this threads is full of confusions and people talking past each other. I lay the majority of the blame on the OP for using the term in a way completely alien to mainstream philosophy, but I messed up myself by only half-reading it and assuming he was discussing the philosophical position of realism (as it is used, say, in ethics or philosophy of science) rather than a mix of mystical thinking, circular reasoning, appeals to emotion, and selective scepticism.

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 27 May 2012 03:58:28AM 1 point [-]

Mostly agree, except I don't understand why you think the OP's use of "realism" is nonstandard.

Comment author: buybuydandavis 28 May 2012 10:49:42PM 1 point [-]

I think his "something exists" is pretty standard philosophical realism as well.

Wikipedia:

Contemporary philosophical realism is the belief that our reality, or some aspect of it, is ontologically independent of our conceptual schemes, linguistic practices, beliefs, etc.