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Term: 
Scholastic Realism
Quote: 

The scholastic realist says, “[…] there are real laws (or necessities,) and real possibilities. They are not actual: they do not exist: but they are not figments. They are such as they are whether you and I think them to be so, or not. The future does not exist. But it is really true that if I find the air in my study stuffy, I can open the window.”

Source: 
Peirce, C. S. (1905). Notes on Portions of Hume's "Treatise on Human Nature". MS [R] 939.
References: 
MS [R] 939:21
Date of Quote: 
1905
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