Austere realism Contextual Semantics Meets Minimal Ontology

This work presents a provocative ontological-cum-semantic position stating that the right ontology is austere in its exclusion of numerous common-sense and scientific posits and that many statements employing such posits are nonetheless true.

In praise of reason / In Praise of Reason:

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