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Costa de Beauregard now argues that reflections on physics lead us to anti-realism, the view that there is no reality independent of human minds. It is shown that a number of Costa de Beauregard's arguments do not support that conclusion.
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Dowe, P. The anti-realism of Costa de Beauregard. Found Phys Lett 6, 469–475 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00682793
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