1. 1Thanks are due to Renee Elio, Bruce Hunter, Bernard Linsky, and Barry Allen for their comments and criticisms on the earlier versions of this article. Various ideas defended here were presented to audiences at the University of Alberta, Bogazici University, California State University, and Dalhousie University. I am indebted to them for their feedback. Two anonymous referees (one of another journal) provided me with valuable criticisms that helped me a lot in revising the article. Finally, I would like to thank Bogazici Universitesi Bilimsel Arastirma Projeleri (Bogazici University Research Fund), Turkey, and the Killam Foundation, Canada, for funding my research between 2005-2006 and 2001-2003 respectively.
2. 2See Rae Langton'sKantian Humility: Our Ignorance of Things in Themselves(Oxford: Oxford UP, 2001). According to Langton's interpretation, the "epistemological humility" found in Kant's theory is independent of the theses of the Transcendental Aesthetic and Transcendental Analytic-so it does not stand or fall with them. She contends that while Kant believes that intrinsic propertiescannotaffect us, he also insists that human beings are capable of getting knowledge ofanything that can affect them(ibid: 6). This is one major source of Kant's belief in the possibility of human knowledge and of his "epistemological humility."
3. 3J. O. Young provides the following impressive list of realisms one can find in the literature today: internal, interior, external, semantic, epistemic, epistemological, empirical, scientific, pragmatic, naive, sophisticated, technical, intuitive, and metaphysical. See hisGlobal Anti-realism(Brookfield: Avebury, 1995) 1-2.
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5. 5W. P. Alston,A Realist Conception of Truth(London: Cornell UP, 1996).