Full Blooded Conceptual Realism as a Response to Skeptical Relativism

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  • Micah Phillips-Gary

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https://doi.org/10.33043/S.14.1.53-65

Abstract

In this paper, I discuss full-blooded Platonism (the claim that all possible mathematical objects exist) as a response to the skeptical problem in the philosophy of mathematics as to how empirical beings can cognize non-empirical mathematical objects. I then attempt to develop an analogous position regarding the applicability of concepts to reality in response to the skeptical problem regarding how we can cognize an objective reality through human-constructed concepts. If all concepts meeting certain minimal conditions structure reality under some aspect, then objective knowledge is possible, regardless of how these concepts arose historically.

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2021-04-06

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Phillips-Gary, M. (2021). Full Blooded Conceptual Realism as a Response to Skeptical Relativism. Stance: An International Undergraduate Philosophy Journal, 14(1), 53–65. https://doi.org/10.33043/S.14.1.53-65

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Vol. 14 No. 1 (2021)

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