Hilary Putnam's internal realism and Wilfrid Sellars's scientific realism both demonstrate that representational success can be explained by correspondence to real structure rather than by idealist imposition.
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Real structure(as what our representations correspond to)
The actual patterns, relationships, and features that exist in the world independently of what anyone thinks about them.
Representational success(as the philosophical problem being explained)
When our thoughts, words, or theories accurately capture and describe reality—basically, when our ideas correctly 'represent' or match how things actually are.
Wilfrid Sellars(The philosopher whose critique is being discussed)
A 20th-century American philosopher who made important arguments about how we know things and how language connects to reality.
idealism(Presented as a consequence of the coherence theory of truth, but not exclusive to it)
The view that one's beliefs constitute the world
scientific realism(Carman 2005a)
A position on the status of scientific theories; Carman provided a detailed elucidation of the term, suggesting it requires careful disambiguation