Status Updates From Chasing Reality: Strife ove...

...precisely because it isnt anti science or anti realism. It is only anti a particular kind of materialist realism, that would have the basis of the patterns in reality be mechanistic in a way that we can reliably model. They argue that our models we must always be aware are models only, and this is not a detriment on independent reality, though it would be if we took our models too literally.

...can not unfairly be lumped in with modern day relativists, constructivists and other anti realists, because his idealism, once again is primarily opposed to materialism. Reality and its patterns, even for Berkeley are there independently of our observations, just in his case he postulates an all seeing God. This can be compared with Panspsychism a view not so easy to strawman as anti science or anti realism...

Precisely because the notion of "things" is itself just one way we model the patterns of the much deeper reality. As a result of his confounding he also confounds all idealists as opposing realism, when many of them are very committed realists, just not materialists, which is often what idealism is actually opposed to, in the cases of the likes of Plato and Kant for instance. Even Berkeley...

Just read his preliminary thesis of the book so far. I find on multiple occasions that he seems to be confounding realism and materialism. He is keen to defend an independent reality as existing, rightly seeing the dangers of much popular relativist and postmodernist ways of thinking, but this reality need not necessary be mechanistic. We can have real patterns without presuming "things" exist...