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If the antirealist goes so far as to deny that the requisite conditions are ever met, his position amounts to an "error theory," according to which statements of the problematic kind are systematically false.
Although some realist-antirealist disputes may, as illustrated, turn on the applicability of a strongly realist notion of truth to statements of a certain kind, it does not seem that this can be what is at issue in all cases in which realists assert, and their opponents deny, that statements of the problematic sort are capable of objective truth.
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Tonjes points to Grande's statements as evidence of the problematic way Americans tend to view fat people, food, and the relationship between the two.
Often, and especially when underpinned by an expressivist account of the problematic statements, antirealism of this second kind amounts to a version of "projectivism," according to which, in making such statements, one is not seeking to correctly describe features of a mind-independent world but is merely projecting one's own responses and attitudes onto it.
If this is right, therefore, the disagreement between realists and antirealists, in at least some areas, must concern the truth or objectivity of the problematic statements in a more substantial sense, but one which is still less exacting than that of the metaphysical realist characterized by Putnam and Dummett.
First, the antirealist may agree with the realist about the kind of meaning possessed by statements belonging to the problematic discourse in particular, about the conditions required for their truth but decline to accept that those conditions are ever met.
The gradual return of Qantas's A380s to the air was given the go-ahead after the company, in consultation with Rolls-Royce and Airbus, completed an inspection of the problematic engine, a statement from Qantas said Monday.
GI reviewed some of the problematic slides.
Our use of the word "problematic" is problematic.
According to the Turkish side his statements reflect the "prevailing problematic mentality in Armenia as to the territorial integrity of its neighbor Turkey".
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