A dilemma for internal realism

✍ Scribed by Paul K. Moser

• Book ID: 104743563
• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1990
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 267 KB
• Volume: 59
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0031-8116
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00368394

✦ Synopsis

Critique B310f.) that we lack not only knowledge, but even a positive intelligible notion, of reality in itself. Putnam endorses the Kantian view that truth construed as correspondence with how things are in themselves is "inaccessible to us and inconceivable by us" (1981, p. 64). This paper shows that Putnam's internal realism faces a fatal dilemma.