You cite Kelly's claim that the world "does exist out there,"
as many commentators do, in an effort to suggest that he was a "closet
realist."
Reading farther down the page, we see that Kelly lays out an
interesting argument, something to the effect that "even if we did find
a way to 'discover' truth, and we did convince ourselves that we had found
it, how could we assure that wily truth didn't go and change itself the
very moment after we have discovered it????"
Jim Mancuso