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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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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, 2012In 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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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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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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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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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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2017
The chapter argues that the search for a single construal of the realism/anti-realism distinction is misguided. There are more or less apt versions of the distinction, each framed with a specific set of interests. The terms of art, ‘realist’ and ‘anti-realist’, are not helpfully construed as applying across whole domains (‘science’, ‘religion’, ‘ethics’
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The chapter argues that the search for a single construal of the realism/anti-realism distinction is misguided. There are more or less apt versions of the distinction, each framed with a specific set of interests. The terms of art, ‘realist’ and ‘anti-realist’, are not helpfully construed as applying across whole domains (‘science’, ‘religion’, ‘ethics’
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