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Essentialism, Metaphysical Realism, and the Errors of Conceptualism
Philosophia Scientiæ, 2008 Metaphysical realism is the view that most of the objects that populate the world exist independently of our thought and have their natures independently of how, if at all, we conceive of them.
E. Jonathan Lowe
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Quine’s Ontology and the Islamic Tradition
American Journal of Islam and Society, 2019 Analytic theologians seem to unreservedly prioritise a realist view in the way they approach theological dogmas. I have previously argued that this particular type of realist methodological approach that is adopted by most analytic theologians is ...
Abbas Ahsan
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Robust ethical realism, necessary truths and the miracle of morality
Ethic@: an International Journal for Moral Philosophy, 2023 Non-naturalists about the normative face the problem of providing a metaphysical explanation for the supervenience of the normative on the natural. Recently, Gideon Rosen has argued that non-naturalists can side-step this problem by rejecting strong ...
Rafael Graebin Vogelmann
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Evolutionary Approach to Realism [PDF]
روش شناسی علوم انسانی, 2020 Common sense realism and scientific realism are two metaphysical thesis. The former accepts the existence of the observable entities of common sense knowledge and the later accepts the unobservable entities necessary for the well-established scientific ...
Farshid Daneshpajooh +2 more
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Realizm i idealizm: struktura problemu (Realism and Idealism: the Structure of the Debate) [PDF]
Analiza i Egzystencja, 2009 The aim of the article is to systematize fundamental concepts involved in the philosophical debate on realism and idealism. In the first (historical) part distinction between appearance and reality (which has its roots in ancient philosophy) is presented
Stanisław Judycki
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Granice poznania a spór między realizmem i antyrealizmem (COGNITIVE LIMITS AND THE REALISM/ANTI-REALISM DEBATE) [PDF]
Analiza i Egzystencja, 2006 According to metaphysical realism, there are truths that we can understand but cannot even in principle come to know, whereas according to anti-realism, there are no such truths.
Sven Rosenkranz
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RUDN Journal of Studies in Literature and Journalism, 2019 There are many terms that denote the invasion of the inexplicable into a realistic narrative, such as: magical realism, fantastic realism, mystical realism, spiritual realism, transcendental realism, metaphysical realism, Christian realism, etc.
Vitaliy Alexandrovich Gavrikov
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Non-Representational Mathematical Realism
Theoria, 2015 This paper is an attempt to convince anti-realists that their correct intuitions against the metaphysical inflationism derived from some versions of mathematical realism do not force them to embrace non-standard, epistemic approaches to truth and ...
Maria Jose Frapolli
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Scientific Realism and Metaphysics
Ratio, 2005 The tendency to take scientific realism to be a richer metaphysical view than it ought to be stems from the fact that there are two ways in which we can conceive of reality. The first is to conceive of reality as comprising all facts and the other is to conceive of it as comprising all and only fundamental facts.
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Reality and Evangelism in the Lives and Works of C.S. Lewis and Francis Schaeffer
Linguaculture, 2019 The thesis of this paper is that the shared commitment of C.S. Lewis and Francis A. Schaeffer to metaphysical realism formed the basis of their development and practice of pre-evangelism. Pre-evangelism is defined as a work to be done prior to evangelism.
Bruce A. Little
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