Sentence examples for possibility realism from inspiring English sources

As we have just shown that were we to be so, we could not even entertain this as a possibility, realism is incoherent [Putnam 1981].

The challenge to objectivity in the sense of universality or perspective-independence is even more difficult to square with the possibility of realism.

Nonetheless, Lewis emphasized their importance, and the importance of the real connections they express, for the possibility of realism about the material world and the rejection of any sort of idealism or view that physical objects are simply mind-dependent collections of experiences (Lewis 1955, in Lewis 1970).

Two friends in particular, Lev Kopelev and Dmitri Panin, involved him in long philosophical and political debates, while the painter Sergei Ivashopenedatov opened Solzhenitsyn's eyes to the possibility of combining realism with symbolism in art.

Shown at the Impressionist exhibition of 1881, this work carried the possibilities of visual realism to new extremes by incorporating an actual, reduced-scale tutu, ballet slippers, a human-hair wig, and a silk ribbon.

As Harriet attempts to solve the crime that has set her old college by the ears, while grappling with her feelings for Peter and struggling with the possibility of introducing psychological realism into her own orderly and (metaphorically) bloodless crime novels, Sayers is busily doing the same.

This opened up the possibility of defending direct realism about a robust experiential phenomenology with completely naturalistic credentials.

The Pre-Raphaelites took their inspiration from artists of late medieval and early Renaissance times, when painters were first exploring the possibilities of sharply focused realism, before Raphael and Michelangelo and other artists of the High Renaissance began painting their operatic masterpieces.

For a different attempt to reconcile possibilist realism with the possibility of the non-existence of anything concrete, see Rodriguez-Pereyra 2004.

It looks, then, like PII is not a plausible starting point for a case against Possibility Haecceitism within Lewisian Modal Realism.

Lewis is most celebrated for his "modal realism", a theory which argues that possible worlds are not just a concept for explaining possibility and necessity, but as real as our own universe.