Veritas Aequitas wrote: ↑Thu Aug 01, 2024 3:03 am1) why put 'unobservables' in quotes? 2) I think you must mean 'real' not 'true'. It would be weird to say an electron is true. Statements on other hand.....In this case "unobservables" are true because the specific human-based Science FSERC said so.
So, is the moon, even when not looked at, is there in its orbit as considered real in the astronomy FSERC and was there before humans existed, also considered true and conditioned the astronomy FSERC."unobservables" means that confined to science not the supernaturals or God and the like.
It is 'quarks exists as real' it true as conditioned upon the science-physics FSERC.
The earth also formed before humans and, as far as we know, being watched by anyone as conditioned on the geology FSERC. And so on back in time.
Possibly that's true, though there may be other assumptions that realists do not need to have to explain the ontology of things not persisting when not viewed/experienced. Since we haven't seen this ontology fleshed out, while we have seen the realist ontology fleshed out, we have no idea, yet, which ism has nor assumptions and what they are and are not justified by.There is no such assumption within the scientific antirealism FSERC which is merely a conjecture-polishing-machine based on empirical evidences.
Further you have assumed that there is nothing there, which goes beyond epistemic anti-realism, unless you have changed your mind.
So the best FSERC is pragmatic/pragmatist, not needing, actually to weigh in on whether there are mind independent things.Science in reality and practice is not serious about what could be out there existing as absolutely mind-independent, but the focus is the predictability of its optimal polished conjectures.
Oh, yes, if any of the answers are something along the lines of 'the earth when it was forming was not absolutely mind independent 1) there were no minds then, in your model, and 2) but that's true for everything (in your model), so there's no need to say it with emphasis for anything in particular.
But perhaps you whole Moon thing has changed, without letting us know. Perhaps what once needed to be experienced to exist, now merely needs to be conceived to exist and this works retroactively.