The real issue is not fairness, but that certain athletes are not accepted as real women because of their appearance.
Revelation of radical new truths, if accepted as real, thus makes future revelation of radical new truths impossible.
The second objection was that eliminative materialism denied the existence of certain things that all accept as real: namely, felt sensations (known as "qualia").
Mr. Hotton ended up creating several fictitious investors that the producers accepted as real, despite never meeting or talking to them.
To be accepted as real men on the screen, American golden boys have had to be cowboys as well as gentlemen.
As the Nakashimas, from Vietnam, know all too well, even long-term immigrants face frequent discrimination and are not accepted as "real" Japanese.
We were also becoming aware that many things we accepted as real – ideas of nationality, race, gender, sexuality and many more – were in fact socially constructed.
Although Ptolemy had no evidence for their existence, epicycles successfully explained what the ancients could see in the night sky, so they were accepted as real.
For most of the noughties, the majority of British politicians, economists and voters were just as gullible as that viewing couple: we accepted as real and glorious what was patently fake and plastic.
The protocol, like the currency, is a fiction they accept as real, because rejection by a large proportion of users be they banks, exchanges, speculators or miners could cause the whole system to collapse.
