So I need different names for the thingies that determine my predictions and the thingy that determines my experimental results. I call the former thingies ‘belief’, and the latter thingy ‘reality’.”
Here, reality is merely a convenient term to use, which helps conceptualize errors in the map.
No, the point of the argument for realism, in general, is that it explains how prediction, in general, is possible.
That’s different from saying that the predictive ability of a specific theory is good evidence for the ontological accuracy of a specific theory.
No, the point of the argument for realism, in general, is that it explains how prediction, in general, is possible.
That’s different from saying that the predictive ability of a specific theory is good evidence for the ontological accuracy of a specific theory.