@article {1187, title = {Inštrumentálny realizmus, ontológia rozlíšení a problém ontologického statusu inštrumentov}, journal = {Organon F}, volume = {21}, number = {2}, year = {2014}, pages = {180-197}, type = {State}, abstract = {Scientific realism is a positive epistemic attitude towards the content of our best theories/models recommending belief in both observable and unobservable aspects of the world described by the sciences. This attitude has important metaphysical dimension. It is committed to the mind-independent existence of the world investigated by the sciences (Chakravartty 2013). In his papers Mathematics and Experience (2009) and Mathematics and Reality (2011) Ladislav Kvasz holds a position of instrumental realism. Kvasz claims that reality is instrumentally constituted and realism issue should be understood as a relation between two languages instead of world-language relation. Kvasz{\textquoteright}s instrumental realism also suggests to build up an ontology of distinctions instead of an ontology of fillings. The paper deals with Kvasz{\textquoteright}s version of instrumental realism critically and it aims to show that Kvasz{\textquoteright}s position is much closer to antirealism than to scientific realism because it does not meet the metaphysical dimension.}, keywords = {antirealism, experience, instrument, Ladislav Kvasz, language, ontology, realism, reality}, url = {http://www.klemens.sav.sk/fiusav/doc/organon/2014/2/180-197.pdf}, author = {Labuda, Pavol} }