DSimon comments on Reductionism - Less Wrong
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I don't follow why you claim that reductionism and realism are incompatible. I think this may be because I'm very confused when I try to figure out, from context, what you mean by "realism", and I strongly suspect that that's because you don't have a definition of that word which can be used in tests for updating predictions, which is the sort of thing LWers look for in a useful definition.
Basically, I'm inclined to agree with you when you say:
This is a really good reason in my experience for not getting into long discussions about "But what is reality, really?"