In Real Natures and Familiar Objects Crawford Elder defends, with qualifications, the ontology of common sense. He argues that we exist -- that no gloss is necessary for the statement "human beings exist" to show that it is true of the world as it really is -- and that we are surrounded by many of t[...]
Argues that sceptical metaphysicians employ shadows of familiar objects, while denying that the entities which cast those shadows really exist.[...]