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By “epistemic realism” I understand the view that the objects of veridical thought and perception both exist and have the characteristics they are therein discovered to have without regard to whether or not they are in any way actually present to any mind of any type.
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For further discussion of what it is to be, and how it applies to the Ideal as well as the real, I refer to my Logic and the Objectivity of Knowledge, Athens, OH.: Ohio University Press, 1984, 187–188, etc. For further discussion of many points only mentioned in this paper, see my “The Integrity of the Mental Act: Husserlian Reflections on a Fregean Problem,” in Mind, Meaning and Mathematics, ed. L. Haaparanta, Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1994, 235–262; and my “Knowledge,” in The Cambridge Companion to Husserl, eds. B. Smith and D. W. Smith, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995, 138–167.
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Willard, D. (2002). The World Well Won: Husserl’s Epistemic Realism One Hundred Years Later. In: Zahavi, D., Stjernfelt, F. (eds) One Hundred Years of Phenomenology. Phaenomenologica, vol 164. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0093-1_5
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