The difference between the recanted “metaphysical” realism and the uncontroversial internal realism is the difference between saying that we are successfully representing according to Nature’s own conventions of representation and saying that we are successfully representing according to our own. It is the difference between, roughly, science as a Mirror of Nature, and as a set of working diagrams for coping with nature.
December 2, 2020. Page 298. Coping with reality.
