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Moderate structural realism about space-time [PDF]

open access: yesSynthÈse, 2006
This paper sets out a moderate version of metaphysical structural realism that stands in contrast to both the epistemic structural realism of Worrall and the – radical – ontic structural realism of French and Ladyman.
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Realism and Anti-Realism

2007
Questions about the plausibility and character of realism and its alternatives are at the heart of all metaphysical disputes today. However it is not a straightforward matter to know when some contentious realm of entities is real, or to understand and appreciate what is at issue between those on either side of the dispute. This book aims to make clear
Stuart Brock, Edwin Mares
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Interpretative realism and prescriptive realism

Journal of Political Ideologies, 2012
In recent years some political theorists have been promoting ‘political realism’ as an alternative to the mainstream perspectives fostered by what is perceived as the ideal theory tendency embedded...
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Realism

2009
Lo studio presenta una panoramica delle varie forme di realismo elaborate tra XIII e XV secolo, mostrando l'importanza che per gli ultimi sviluppi del realismo medievale hanno avuto le critiche dei nominalisti ed in particolare di ...
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Realism and Anti-Realism

1996
Abstract Disputes about realism should be construed as disputes not about a class of entities, but about the truth‐value of the statements in a given class. For what reality consists in is not determined just by what objects there are, but by what propositions hold good: the world is the totality of facts, not of things.
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Constructivism versus realism, or constructivism and realism

Journal of Experimental & Theoretical Artificial Intelligence, 1994
Abstract This brief essay examines the philosophy and knowledge elicitation methodology of constructivism with regard to ontological and epistemological premises, and links the philosophy to the broader world view called ‘contextualism’. Implications of the ontological and epistemological premises for practical problems in knowledge elicitation are ...
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