Lexicon of Arguments

 

Strawson V 230
Realism/KantVsLeibniz assumes truths about independent objects.
Kant: we may only speak of terms instead.
>Thing in itself/Kant, >Perception/Kant, >Knowledge/Kant; ((s) Cf. >Semantic ascent/Quine).
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Stroud I 134
Realism/Kant: a) metaphysical realism: that things exist independently of us in the room -
b) epistemic realism: contains something about our approach to things.
Thesis: Perception: is directly and unproblematic - hence knowledge of external things (the outside world) is possible.
Scandal/Kant: that the realism was never proved before.
Stroud I 135
Moores hands/Kant/Stroud: Kant cannot complain that Moore would assume things only by belief itself.
>Moore's hands.
Stroud I 136
It is not about lack of generality. ((s) The proof is quite general (s.o. chapter 3).
Stroud I 162
Def Transcendental Realism/Kant: understands the external things as something separate from the senses - KantVs: that leads to the empiricist idealism.
Problem: we are aware of our representations but do not know whether they corresponds with something that exists.
>Representations/Kant.