THE THESIS OF EXISTENCE AND SCIENTIFIC REALISM
Evgeniy Alekseevich Bezlepkin
Institute of Philosophy and Law, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 8 Nikolaeva str., Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia
Keywords: научный реализм, определение существования, тезис существования, метафизическая установка, scientific realism, definition of existence, thesis of existence, metaphysical principle
Abstract
The concepts of scientific realism, firstly, include the statement of the existence of objective reality and, secondly, imply the division of this statement into two components: "the thesis of existence" and "the thesis of independence". Relying on a brief historical analysis of the definitions of the concept of existence, we suppose that this concept is relative and depends on metaphysical principles adopted in a particular era. We show that during the naturalistic turn, there were attempts to make the thesis of existence invariant relative to metaphysical interpretations. In future, it will enable to strengthen the foundations of the concept of scientific realism.
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