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I 255
Def quietism/Wright Crispin: Quietism is the view that a significant metaphysical debate is impossible.
One version has it that realistic and anti-realistic tendencies pursue the confused desire to get out of their own skin.
>Realism, >Anti-realism.
This is a wrong "divine point of view", from which the claim the objectivity of a linguistic practice can be examined. (This thesis is attributed to Wittgenstein, but this attribution again is disputed).
>Objectivity, >Divine standpoint, >Relativism, >L. Wittgenstein.

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