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Introduction
the conceptual knots of the realism debate
pp. 1-17
in: Evandro Agazzi (ed), Varieties of scientific realism, Berlin, Springer, 2017Abstract
A couple of elementary "facts of life' stimulate our reflection. The first is that "all humans want by their nature to know", as Aristotle says at the beginning of his Metaphysics.