Comment by Zarathruster

> Searle &co assert that there is a real world that has special properties, without providing any way to show that we are living in it

Searle described himself as a "naive realist" although, as was typical for him, this came with a ton of caveats and linguistic escape hatches. This was certainly my biggest objection and I passed many an afternoon in office hours trying to pin him down to a better position.