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I don't use terms like anti realist so don't know. Seems something a academic writing a text book would come up with. Point out a classical writer who was one and I might agree, might not.

Constantine wrote: ↑Sat Jul 22, 2023 1:33 pm I don't use terms like anti realist so don't know. Seems something a academic writing a text book would come up with. Point out a classical writer who was one and I might agree, might not.

It was also irony, but going beyond the scope of this thread, though not the forum. Some famous antirealists about universals are René Descartes, John Locke, Baruch Spinoza, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, George Berkeley, and David Hume. But you have to be a special kind of antirealist to think there was consciousness at the time of Big Bang or a theist of some kind. So, I have no examples of an antirealist like VA, except VA.

But I'm just playing even if the above is correct.

I don't believe in universals but do God, but uncertain if the big bang existed.

Constantine wrote: ↑Sat Jul 22, 2023 1:46 pm I don't believe in universals but do God, but uncertain if the big bang existed.

So, antirealism, (theistic) realism, and as far as the Big Bang, perhaps specifically skeptical or your uncertainty might be based on, for example, antirealism in relation to unobservables.

My hesitancy in regards to universals isn't based on unobservables, but rather non-syllogistic prediction. A imple example would be a immediate reaction faster than you can process data.... enough to cause fear but not enough to know what the thing is. But this can also have levels of rationalization not syllogistic in character.

As regards to the big bang, I just don't know. I've seen lots of competing theories.