Best known for his novels starring Frank Bascombe, an endlessly ruminative New Jersey estate agent, Ford originally made his name as a short story writer alongside Carver and Tobias Wolff, with whom he was friendly and with whom he appeared in Granta's famous "Dirty Realism" issue in 1983.
Just as in his discussion of the realism issue, he leaves it to the factual sciences to judge about the adequacy of his preferred philosophical position.
To this we must add that for Carnap ramseyfications of theoretical terms can support only internal existence claims: he explicitly reaffirmed his confidence in the distinction between internal and external question to defuse the realism/anti-realism issue (1966 [1996, 256]).
By contrast, Ms. Fiorina seemed more comfortable talking about the economy, offering a kind of hard-eyed realism to issues of global competition.
With the later phantasmagoric plays, such as To Damascus, A Dream Play, and The Ghost Sonata, Strindberg led that section of the revolt against stage realism that issued in the Expressionist drama, which was developed mainly in Germany after 1912 and which influenced such modern playwrights as Sean O'Casey, Elmer Rice, Eugene O'Neill, Luigi Pirandello, and Pär Lagerkvist.
The realism at issue here is 'metaphysical' because it says something about the ultimate nature of things that exist in the world.
In contrast to verifiable agent behavioral rules at the individual level, the update scheme is a design decision made by the model developer at the systems level that is subject to realism and computational efficiency issues that directly affect the credibility and the usefulness of the simulation results.
As Devitt points out (1991b: 46) availing oneself of this way of talking does not entail that one sees the metaphysical issue of realism as 'really' a semantic issue about the nature of truth (if it did, any question about any subject matter would turn out to be 'really' a semantic issue).
Nobody should think that words like "realism" and "practicality" issue casually from your lips.
Bill Buford coined a term, "dirty realism", for an issue of Granta in which he showcased Carver and a selection of his contemporaries, including Richard Ford, Jayne Anne Phillips, and Tobias Wolff.
