antirealist
- adjective
- /ˌæntiˈriːəlɪst/
- Formal
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antirrealista
- However, he is not an antirealist or mereological nihilist about complex objects such as cats and trees; he only denies that they are anything over and above mereological fusions of interrelated and interacting simple substances.
- realist and antirealist
Examples
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Formulated for poetry, this antirealist aesthetic influenced artistic perception in general and created a soil in which abstract dance, when it began its new growth in the West in the early twentieth century, could flourish.
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Even within philosophy itself, the difficulty of incorporating aesthetic reflections on representation in art into realist or antirealist perspectives is often acknowledged.
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The massive absence from antirealist literary arguments of the terms of debate over scientific realism, in light of the difficulties I have been suggesting, does constitute a serious intellectual loss.
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In effect, Hacking has opted out of the realist/antirealist debate because, as he says, the attempt to wring some conclusion out of representation is hopeless: there is nothing there.
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These tentatively announced possibilities of development suggest at least one way the ideas of philosophers of science might provoke useful revisions of our contemporary antirealist pieties.
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Michael Rothberg notes that, "while the traumatic combination of the extreme and the everyday blocks traditional claims to synthetic knowledge, attentiveness to its structure can also lead to new forms of knowledge beyond the realist and antirealist positions and outside of traditional disciplines" (6-7).
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Looking back at the three aspects of the theoretical and methodological dilemma of postmodernism, we can now try to construct an analogy between these and the levels of commitment that constitute the realist or antirealist perspectives in philosophy.
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Rudwick's realism is just one example of the ways in which philosophers of science can incorporate a strong awareness of social constructivism (or other ostensibly antirealist positions) into realist positions.
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The antirealist approach in art emphasizes that perception shapes our understanding of reality.
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Many contemporary philosophers identify as antirealist, arguing that our interpretations dictate how we perceive the world.
Synonyms
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7.0
The belief that the mind makes reality rather than matter
How Real
- Specialized
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7.7
- Formal
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Antirealist comes from anti- ('against') and real ('true' or 'existing'), with realist meaning a view that things are really there. So to be antirealist is to be 'against' the idea that the world exists by itself, separate from how we see or think about it.