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Posted by Harvey on September 20, 2001 01:28:43 UTC

Luis,

>>>I’d agree antirealism cannot offer a ‘satisfactory’ account of science and mathematics, but only insofar as antirealism is just as limited as realism is. Neither realism nor antirealism can offer a complete account of science and mathematics as we experience them. Therefore, I ask, why offer one as the alternative for the other?>>Let’s entertain your position that antirealism’s inability to account for everything is a valid reason to complain.>>It quickly becomes evident that no satisfactory account of science can be offered by a priori, unless we can mend our logic with a few assumptions. But assumptions that a priori relies upon cannot be a priori, since otherwise these assumptions would not be assumptions, but would be, in fact, a priori. As such, a priori relies upon a posteriori.>Neither antirealism nor realism can offer a complete account of science and mathematics as we experience them. It is illogical to complain about a philosophy’s incompleteness from the position of an equally incomplete philosophy.

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