Disentangling scientific realism from anti-exceptionalism

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04479v1
• Date: Sun, 06 Jul 2025 17:27:34 GMT
• Title: Disentangling scientific realism from anti-exceptionalism
• Authors: Jonas R. B. Arenhart, Raoni Arroyo, Ederson Safra Melo,
• Abstract summary: We argue that scientific realism is a sort of sociological contingency rather than a metaphilosophical necessity.<n>We briefly explore the possibility of adopting antirealism as the background default view of science instead.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Scientific realism is, currently, one of the most well-entrenched background assumptions of some relevant versions of anti-exceptionalism about logic. We argue that this is a sort of sociological contingency rather than a metaphilosophical necessity. Drawing parallels with the metaphysics of science (as applied to quantum foundations), we try to bring the realist assumptions of anti-exceptionalism to light, to demotivate the necessary connection between realism and anti-exceptionalism, briefly exploring the possibility of adopting antirealism as the background default view of science instead.

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