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The viewpoint that there is a mind-independent reality, but our access to it and our descriptions of it are always mediated by our practical interests, cognitive tools, and languages. Therefore, "truth" is the set of beliefs that, at a given time, best enables us to cope with and predict the behavior of that reality. It's a realism tempered by pragmatism: the world is real, but our maps of it are judged by how well they help us travel.
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