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.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No actual skeptic, so far as I know, has claimed to disbelieve in an objective world. Skepticism is not a denial of belief, but ra...ther a denial of rational grounds for belief.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To regard the successful experiences which ensue from a belief as a criterion of its truth is one thing--and a thing that is somet...imes bad and sometimes good--but to assume that truth itself consists in the process by which it is verified is a different thing and always bad.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »