Abstract

Michael Luntley continues Dummett’s attack on realism and the validity of classical logic. For Luntley, realism is not equated with the claim that one must have a conception of the world which is characterized as being beyond the subject’s experience, but with whether the contents we grasp correspond to a determinate reality fixed beyond our investigation of it, i.e., with whether the contents have a recognition-transcendent truth value. The ojectivity-of-content issue has to do only with the kind of contents grasped and, hence, misses the realist point. The realist thesis, as Luntley sees it, is Thesis R: “The contents we grasp have a determinate truth value independent of our knowledge of that value.”