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- noun philosophy One who
rejects realism .
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These "antirealist" doctrines undermine confidence in the value of disinterested efforts to determine what is true and what is false, and even in the intelligibility of the notion of objective enquiry.
The Acorn 2010
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These "antirealist" doctrines undermine confidence in the value of disinterested efforts to determine what is true and what is false, and even in the intelligibility of the notion of objective enquiry.
The Acorn 2010
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These "antirealist" doctrines undermine confidence in the value of disinterested efforts to determine what is true and what is false, and even in the intelligibility of the notion of objective enquiry.
The Acorn 2010
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This has the definite flavor of being antirealist about some key elements of explanation in chaos and has been criticized as such (Koperski 2001).
Chaos Bishop, Robert 2008
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Church's line of argument would seem to lead ultimately to the extreme antirealist position that any perceived difference among objects is a real difference.
Relative Identity Deutsch, Harry 2007
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A further antirealist argument, the ˜incompatible models argument™, takes as its starting point the observation that scientists often successfully use several incompatible models of one and the same target system for predictive purposes
Models in Science Frigg, Roman 2006
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Of antirealist writers -- experimentalists, postmodernists, magical realists; Rushdie, DeLillo, Zadie Smith
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The writer’s job is to keep breaking the forms, and a realist writer may do this as profoundly as an antirealist writer (Naipaul might be an example of the former, Saramago the latter).
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The writer’s job is to keep breaking the forms, and a realist writer may do this as profoundly as an antirealist writer (Naipaul might be an example of the former, Saramago the latter).
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Carver honored Hemingway for his belief that “fiction must be based on actual experience” and later came to believe it “was not entirely coincidental” that shortly after Hemingway’s death, antirealist writing gained ascendancy in American fiction.
Raymond Carver Carol Sklenicka 2009
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