Sentence examples for robust realism from inspiring English sources

Where one could expect the robust realism he expressed so brilliantly while performing the Lavrovsky "Giselle," there is an emphasis on dance rather than characterization.

Through Feb. 28 Hailed in his time as "the Michelangelo of the menagerie," and today as France's greatest animalier, or portrayer of animals, Antoine-Louis Barye (1796-1875) applied a robust realism to his portrayal of beasts and reptiles as well as humans.

After the robust realism of his early work, Glackens -- married in 1904 to Edith Dimock, the wealthy artist-daughter of a Hartford tycoon -- gravitated more and more to a soft, domestic kind of art, one that celebrated the good life of family, friends and resort habitats at home and abroad.

Contrast this view with its two main realist alternatives, robust realism and dispositionalism.

Yet to conclude that the distinction between minimal and robust realism cannot be upheld would be hasty.

But other options are available to a dialetheist who wants to embrace some form of metaphysically robust realism about truth.

Although the renewed interest in FA theories arose from a dispute between quasi-realist expressivism (Blackburn 1993, Gibbard 1990) and anthropocentric, less-than-robust realism (McDowell 1998, Wiggins 1987), the metaethical differences between these two approaches seem less significant than their similarities (D'Arms and Jacobson 2006a).

In emphasizing the continuity and coherence in the development of Einstein's philosophy of science, I take issue with an account such as Gerald Holton's (1968), which claims to find a major philosophical break in the mid-1910s, in the form of a turn away from a sympathy for an anti-metaphysical positivism and toward a robust scientific realism.

On these interpretations of each thinker, the contrast between Mencius and Xunzi exemplifies the contrast between a robust moral realism that has moral properties such as rightness existing independently of human invention and a constructivist position that makes moral properties dependent on human invention.

First, it is arguably tendentious, insofar as it suggests that abstractionist (§2.2 below) and (some) combinatorial (§2.3 below) alternatives to concretism are somehow less than robust forms of realism about possible worlds.

Critical methods include using a hydrogeologic model, managing model nonlinearity by designing models that are robust while maintaining realism, using error-based weighting to combine disparate types of data, and identifying important and unimportant parameters and observations and optimizing parameter values with computationally frugal schemes.