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ALVAREZ PUERTA, María Carolina. Nelson Goodman irrealism and evanescent ontology. EPISTEME [online]. 2014, vol.34, n.1, pp.01-18. ISSN 0798-4324.

The central premise of the irrealism of Nelson Goodman proposes the existence of many real worlds, worlds that conflict with each other. Good­man also called for constructive relativism o constructionalism, the irrealism main­tains that what we call the world is diluted in a number of versions, some correct and incorrect other. Goodman presents an evanescent ontology in which the only world vanishes when one considers that each of its features is a proposed assumption made or imposed by a particular version. Good­man begins his work focused on the epistemological problem of how to con­ struct correct versions or images of the world, an issue that is related to the functioning of language and symbolic systems, topics arising in the aesthetic function and, ultimately, to merge aesthetics and philosophy of science in the context of epistemology. Provide an overview of this route is the aim of the present work.

Palabras clave : constructionalism; irrealism; relativism constructive.

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