On Sun, 31 Aug 2003 09:23:34 -0700 (PDT) andie nachgeborenen
<andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com> writes:
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> > Realism is pretty much a theoretically worked-out
> > version of common sense.
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> For a really lovely refutation of this commonplace
> misconception, see Paul Churchland's little book,
> Scientific Realism and the Plasticity of Mind.
> "Perceptual" realism -- realism about trees, houses,
> cats, midsized objects generally -- might qualify as
> beefed up common sense, if we bear in mind that common
> sense is theoretical through and through. Scientific
> realism -- realism about the spacetime manifold,
> quarks and muons, genes and chromosomes -- has not a
> trace of common sense to it. jks
Some of the various proposed realist interpretations of quantum mechanics such as Bohm's causal interpretation or Everett's Multiple Worlds Interpretation don't seem common-sensical at all.
Jim F.
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