But your comment appears to strawman shminux by asserting that he doesn’t believe in external reality at all, when he clearly believes there is some cause of the regularity that allows his models to make accurate predictions.
I’m not sure. I have seen comments that contradict that interpretation. if shminux was the kind of irrealist who believes in an external world of an unknown nature, smninux would have no reason not to call it reality But sminux insists reality is our current best model.
ETA:
anotherr example
“I refuse to postulate an extra “thingy that determines my experimental results”.
I’m not sure. I have seen comments that contradict that interpretation. if shminux was the kind of irrealist who believes in an external world of an unknown nature, smninux would have no reason not to call it reality But sminux insists reality is our current best model.
ETA:
anotherr example
“I refuse to postulate an extra “thingy that determines my experimental results”.