ABSTRACT
In contrast to deflationary realism, we defend a robust realism that argues for the independence claim. We will argue that it is coherent to believe that science can in principle give us access to the functional components of the universe as they are in themselves4 in distinction from how they appear to us on the basis of our quotidian concerns or sensory capacities.5 But, in doing so, we shall have to give up the first thesis, that the universe has a single order of kinds. Instead, we shall allow that the universe can function in a finite number of different ways, each having its own components or kinds. In short, we shall accept and argue for the claim that multiple realism makes sense.
