Philosophy has spent 2,500 years asking "What is true?" when the urgent question was always "What kind of constraint is this, and does someone profit from my belief that it's unchangeable?" Deferential Realism doesn't care whether your epistemology is justified—it asks whether your constraint claim serves extraction or description. The innovation here isn't the four-category … Continue reading The Tyranny of Necessity: How Deferential Realism Weaponizes Skepticism