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Introduction: The Conceptual Knots of the Realism Debate

2017
A couple of elementary ‘facts of life’ stimulate our reflection. The first is that “all humans want by their nature to know”, as Aristotle says at the beginning of his Metaphysics.
Evandro Agazzi, Agazzi Evandro
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CONCEPTUAL RELATIVITY AND METAPHYSICAL REALISM

Nous-Supplement: Philosophical Issues, 2002
Terry Horgan, Mark Timmons
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Medieval Logic and Conceptual Realism

Synthese Library, 2007
Cocchiarella Nino B, Nino B Cocchiarella
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Reference in Conceptual Realism

Synthese, 1998
A conceptual theory of the referential and predicable concepts used in basic speech and mental acts is described in which singular and general, complex and simple, and pronominal and nonpronominal, referential concepts are given a uniform account. The theory includes an intensional realism in which the intensional contents of predicable and referential
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On the Conceptual Foundations of Anti-Realism

Synthese, 1998
The central premise of Michael Dummett's global argument for anti-realism is the thesis that a speaker's grasp of the meaning of a declarative, indexical-free sentence must be manifested in her uses of that sentence. This enigmatic thesis has been the subject of a great deal of discussion, and something of a consensus has emerged about its content and ...
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Wild Realism: A Methodological and Conceptual Approach

Daniel Mobley, Joe Gazeley
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Experimentation, Conceptual Frames, and Scientific Realism

1993
Leon Olive
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Conceptual Realism versus Conceptual Relativism

1998
Abstract It’s time for a provisional summary. Two fundamental notions of signs have been contrasted, the representational and the instrumental. Aristotle and Frege were introduced as exemplary of representational notions, Plato and Wittgenstein as exemplary of instrumental notions of signs.
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Conceptual Realism as a Formal Ontology

1996
A formal ontology is both a theory of logical form and a metaphysical theory about the ontological structure of the world. What makes it a theory of logical form is that different ontological categories or modes of being are represented in it by different logico-grammatical categories.
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Realism, Hard Positivism, and Conceptual Analysis

Legal Theory, 1998
The American Legal Realists, as I read them, aretacitlegal positivists: they presuppose views about the criteria of legality that have affinities with positivist accounts of law in the sense that they employ primarily pedigree tests of legal validity. Ever since Ronald Dworkin's well-known critique of H.L.A. Hart's positivism a generation ago, however,
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