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Adopting or rejecting scientific realism may make a big difference to one’s world-view, and so may adopting or rejecting common-sense realism; it therefore becomes an important question whether these two kinds of realism are mutually exclusive, as has often been supposed, so that one cannot adopt them both.
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Watkins, J. (1996). Scientific Realism versus Common-Sense Realism?. In: Cohen, R.S., Hilpinen, R., Renzong, Q. (eds) Realism and Anti-Realism in the Philosophy of Science. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol 169. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8638-2_15
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