Sentence examples for which realist from inspiring English sources

Fore's readings reveal that each of these "rehumanized" works in fact calls into question the very categories of the human upon which realist figuration is based.

As for the angry young men who became the stock-in-trade of the Royal Court in the era in which "Realist" is set, they're still around, as explosive, nihilistic and exasperated as ever.

Manhands on Her Royal Highness just won't do). 1) Alignment of her skirt's horizontal color change area with the horizontal of the stair-step behind her (a compositional "fault" for which realist art instructors of the time would have downgraded any student), and.

It is the pivot around which realist enquiry revolves.

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.

In both instances, they want to know why the features of the hypotheses to which realists draw attention the ability of those hypotheses to generate correct conclusions about observable matters—should be taken as indicators of the truth of the hypotheses.

States seek to obtain and maintain power, which realists understand as the military capabilities required to ensuring the subsistence of the state (Hollis and Smith 1990).

In this vein, Kitcher (1993, pp. 140 149) draws a distinction between the 'presuppositional posits' or 'idle parts' of theories, and the 'working posits' to which realists should commit.

This is also a worry that the modal fiction will not represent as much as is desirable, though the concern is not confined to those areas in which realists might confess ignorance.

The ability of a theory to do this, it is commonly argued, marks it as genuinely empirically successful, and the sort of theory to which realists should be more inclined to commit (Musgrave 1988, Lipton 1990, Leplin 1997, White 2003, Hitchcock & Sober 2004, Barnes 2008; for a dissenting view, see Harker 2008).

Wright attempts to develop some points of contention, (or 'realism-relevant cruces' as he calls them) over which a realist and anti-realist could disagree.