ABSTRACT
In this chapter we shall present Goodman’s “irrealism”, according to which he rejects the notion of one single, neutral reality that underlies our true versions of what the world is like. Such a reality is neither suffi cient nor necessary to explain matters of epistemology or to distinguish true from false versions. We explain how this view is a consequence of Goodman’s pluralism, constructionalism and anti-foundationalism, which we have encountered in the preceding chapters. It is also worth emphasizing that this obviously relativistic position does not collapse into an “anything goes”. “Irrealism” is not to be confused with “irrationalism”.
