anti-realism

But, if you learned anything in that class you know that anti-realism has nothing to do with the word ‘really’ in this poll.

Matthew Yglesias » What Do Americans “Really” Want 2010

But, if you learned anything in that class you know that anti-realism has to do with the word ‘really’ in this poll.

Matthew Yglesias » What Do Americans “Really” Want 2010

James Wood is perfectly entitled to elevate Naipaulian realism and denigrate Pynchonian anti-realism (if that's what he wants to call them -- I don't think either term does either writer much justice).

Realism in Fiction 2008

As I've said before, if the strongest thing that can be said for anti-realism is that it's as logically indefeasible strictu sensu, then it's right up there with solipsism in the panoply of extremely unconvincing philosophical positions.

Carry-Over Thread 2007

It's that anti-realism about morality is not in fact justified by any stronger reason than it's justified in relation to naturalism itself; and so a naturalist assertion of moral anti-realism is incoherent.

Carry-Over Thread 2007

But the politics of anti-realism leads to resignation and something very like “the popular cynicism that regards all judgments as ‘matters of opinion’ and asks—without staying for an answer—‘who is to say’ what is real and what is not.”

Literature Against Itself 2009

November 27th, 2007 at 11: 57 pm keiths has been told 50 billion times that I think that anti-realism about morality is logically indefeasible strictu sensu, as is anti-realism about matter, anti-realism about other people, anti-realism about other minds, anti-realism about the external world, anti-realism about aircraft, anti-realism about the consciousness of non-human animals, and let me add anti-realism about keiths 'intellect.

Carry-Over Thread 2007

And he is best known for criticising Ayer's sense-data version of anti-realism about physical objects on the basis that Ayer misunderstands how words are actually used.

Carry-Over Thread 2007

He just denies that the epistemic basis for anti-realism about morality is in fact any sounder, upon close examination, than the basis for anti-realism about the physical world, since no basis has been provided by the naturalist for privileging sensory experience over moral experience.

Carry-Over Thread 2007

His argument is not at all that anti-realism about morality would be justified merely if one's anti-realism was global.

Carry-Over Thread 2007