quotes Realism Science Self-Defeat
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Naive realism leads to physics, and physics, if true, shows that naive realism is false. Therefore, naive realism, if true, is false; therefore it is false.

Bertrand Russell, An inquiry into meaning and truth: The William James lectures for 1940 delivered at Harvard University, London ; New York, 1995, p. 15