On Sep 29, 2014, at 10:38 AM, Benjamin wrote:
By the way, I think that we should remind or
inform readers that many physicists, when they
speak of 'realism', mean ideas such as that a
particle has an objective, determinate state, even when unmeasured.
Goble: I think the ultimately problem is that
most physicists (like most scientists) are
nominalists and thus to make a realist claim
requires knowing what the singulars are. Yet
most physicists donât think they know the
singulars. This leads to problems for a
nominalist that a scholastic realist like Peirce doesnât face.
Now I think physicists would do well to jettison nominalism.
HP: To get a fairer picture of how physicists
think, please peruse <http://arxiv.org/pdf/1301.1069v1.pdf>this survey.
Howard
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