Quotation by William Pepperell Montague

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"Program and First Platform of Six Realists" ed. Herbert W. Schneider (1964)"The Story of American Realism" ed. Herbert W. Schneider (1964)

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Realism holds that things known may continue to exist unaltered when they are not known, or that things may pass in and out of the cognitive relation without prejudice to their reality, or that the existence of a thing is not correlated with or dependent upon the fact that anybody experiences it, perceives it, conceives it, or is in any way aware of it.

William Pepperell Montague

William Pepperell Montague (1842–1910), U.S. philosopher. Originally published in Journal of Philosophy (1910). "Program and First Platform of Six Realists," repr. In Sources of Contemporary Philosophical Realism in America, ed. Herbert W. Schneider (1964).

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