Thanks! Yeah, I’m curious about the same questions regarding the strong downvotes. Since I wrote “it works well as a standalone piece,” I guess I couldn’t really complain if people felt that the post was unconvincing on its own. I think the point I’m making in the “Begging the question” subsection only works if one doesn’t think of anti-realism as nihilism/anything goes. I only argued for that in previous posts.
(If the downvotes were because readers are tired of the topic or thought that the discussion of Huemer’s argument was really dry, the good news is that I have only 1 post left for the time being, and it’s going to be a dialogue, so perhaps more engaging than this one.)
Thanks! Yeah, I’m curious about the same questions regarding the strong downvotes. Since I wrote “it works well as a standalone piece,” I guess I couldn’t really complain if people felt that the post was unconvincing on its own. I think the point I’m making in the “Begging the question” subsection only works if one doesn’t think of anti-realism as nihilism/anything goes. I only argued for that in previous posts.
(If the downvotes were because readers are tired of the topic or thought that the discussion of Huemer’s argument was really dry, the good news is that I have only 1 post left for the time being, and it’s going to be a dialogue, so perhaps more engaging than this one.)