Realism's anxieties are not my anxieties, but I think I've had its tools close at hand all along. It may be that I'm reaching for them more often than I used to. On the other hand, I'm making no promises for the future. The material itself always gets the last word.
Human thought by its nature is capable of giving, and does give, absolute truth, which is compounded of a sum-total of relative truths.