Wie Sie sehen, sehn Sie gar nichts Sinnkritisch mit Schlick ins Nirwana der metaphysischen Realisten
The question is not whether realism about external things is true; the question is what it means – and whether it means anything at all. In accordance with Viennese criteria of significance, Moritz Schlick granted good cognitive sense to realism, which he took not only to be verifiable,
but to be actually verified as well. His verification of realism was a little too simplistic. In my approach I'll start from Schlick's proposal. But instead of requiring the world's independence of an entity called mind (as according to tradition and to C. I. Lewis) and instead of requiring
its independence of our life (as according to Schlick), I propose to formulate realism as the requirement that the world be independent of a rich variety of mental occurrences such as perceptions, feelings, thoughts, etc. How would our world look like if it didn't contain visual perceptions?
And how if it didn't contain any perceptions – or any thoughts? Once we relax the famous Viennese criterion of significance in a way Schlick himself proposed, in our answers we can one by one name circumstances that are in principle verifiable. In the ideal limit, this stepwise approach
leads to an imagination of what might be called nirvana (without implications of East Asian wisdom).
Language: German
Document Type: Research Article
Publication date: 01 September 2019
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