Realism

Question 1

Pragmatists

Answer 1

practical consequences. Try to interpret each notion by tracing practical consequences- what would it mean for one theory over another to be true (language= tool for survival rather than abstract nature of reality/creative etc) Darwin helped pragmatic thesis

Question 2

The non-constitutive nature of relations:

Answer 2

Nothing can be defined by its relations to anything else: Nothing may have its relations intrinsic to it
For 2 things to be related (in any way) they must indeed be two identifiably separate things (have intrinsic properties)

Question 3

Realist Epistemology

Answer 3

We can and do have objective knowledge of the world.
Ontological egalitarianism:
Only one kind or level of reality
Everything exists in space and time

Question 4

Realist Ontology:

Answer 4

The world and all its facts exist independently of minds.