ABSTRACT
The theistic realists maintain that some of the theistic symbols at least are used with the intent of referring to an appropriate mind-independent reality. The collective intentionality of the British means that these pieces of coloured paper count as money, as a means of exchange. Human beings with their beliefs, representations and intentional states are thus late arrivals in the cosmos and on the Earth. External realism follows from the fundamental thought that people have representations: physical beings having a history set in a physical cosmos with its own history. Global anti-realism can be defined as the rejection of innocent realism. It denies that the world is, for the most part, both epistemically and ontologically independent of us. Innocent realism builds upon the fundamental thought that there is a distinction between how the world is, on the one hand, and the character of our representations of that world, on the other.
