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What are anti-realists and why do they deny objective reality? What we know of the world must come through our senses and be processed by our brains. Both can be unreliable; illusions can fool our senses and illness or injury can disrupt our brains. Therefore, can we ever be sure that anything outside ourselves is truly what it seems?

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Rebecca Newberger Goldstein is an American philosopher, novelist, and public intellectual. Goldstein is a MacArthur Fellow, and has received the National Humanities Medal and the National Jewish Book Award.

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