metaphysical realism

Although several realist disputes seem to turn on whether statements of a certain kind are capable of being objectively true, it is far from obvious what being objectively true amounts to. The question of what it is for a statement…

…doctrines consist of versions of metaphysical realism (the existence and nature of things in the world are independent of their being perceived or thought about), epistemological (or direct) realism (things in the world are perceived immediately or directly rather than inferred on the basis of perceptual evidence), ethical egoism (an…

According to Dummett, metaphysical realism is equivalent to the view that sentences are true or false independently of whether it is possible (even in principle) to recognize them as such. Mathematical realism, for example, implies that the Goldbach conjecture (every even counting number greater than 2 is the…