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Blob realism

It might seem there is an easy way to escape the dilemma. Instead of saying with blob realism that there is no inherent structure, we might say that there are infinitely many structures. Organization consists in selecting from these structures, and codifying the selected structures conceptually and linguistically. Since there are structures in reality one can select from, there are constraints. So we have freedom... [Pg.25]

To recapitulate, the organization picture leads to a dilemma. What our conceptual schemes organize either has inherent structure, or has no inherent structure. The first hom - organizational metaphysical realism - provides external constraints but sacrifices internal realism. The second hom - blob realism - saves us from metaphysical realism, but has no defense against relativism. Perhaps, however, there is a way to break out of the dilemma to treat what we organize as something like the Kantian thing in itself. [Pg.26]

Well, there is a way to guarantee that to adopt the view that the structure of reality is infinitely fine-grained the bottom divisions are everywhere, so the upper divisions are bound to meet them. As it was pointed out in 2.2., this view is equivalent to blob realism, the position that unifies the problems of metaphysical realism with that of internal realism. [Pg.136]


See other pages where Blob realism is mentioned: [Pg.25]    [Pg.26]    [Pg.27]    [Pg.32]    [Pg.25]    [Pg.26]    [Pg.27]    [Pg.32]   
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