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We have frequently claimed in this book that (internal) scientific realism incorporates the idea that science is the measure of everything that exists. Part of the philosophical grounding for this thesis lies in the view that in principle reason can grasp the world — and that the scientific method is the best explicate of reason.1 Given this, both agnosticism (the view that the world cannot be known) and mysticism (the view that there is some mystical non-rational method, e.g. divine revelation, which only can help us tell what the world really is like) become blocked.
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© 1985 D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland
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Tuomela, R. (1985). Science as the Measure of What There is. In: Science, Action, and Reality. Episteme, vol 12. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5446-5_7
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