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	Irrealism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Irrealism is a philosophical term which seems to have been coined in the 1980s by Nelson Goodman to refer to the belief that the debate between realism and anti-realism was based on poor assumptions.
		Tondino's Irrealism holds that for the most part it is impossible to know "the given" in “sufficient” detail i.e sufficient enough to justify a theory like realism but capable of justifying one like Irrealism.
		Irrealism further adopts the stance that contradiction is acceptable within the following parameters: We can’t make absolute claims about what really exists and as a result contradictory world pictures can be held coherently.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Irrealism (469 words)

	Irreal (Re)views 1: Defining Irrealism: Scientific Development and Allegorical Possibility by Dean Swinford
		Irrealism is a term which does not define an entire genre, a single species or family, but a group of characteristics adapted by different cloth-bound creatures to accommodate for widespread variations in their increasingly unnatural habitat.
		Irrealism is an attempt to understand narratives which may be regarded as the cryptozoological aberrations of postmodern literature, the very Darwinian mutations which, despite their internal logic, exist at the fringes of well defined artistic and literary movements.
		Irrealism, then, is a tool which enables theorists to understand why, both narratologically and phenomenologically, allegory, conceived by the Romantics and Moderns as outmoded and reactionary, resignifies as a dominant mode of expression.
	home.sprynet.com /~awhit/review1a.htm (4404 words)

	Irrealism - Wikipedia
		Irrealism is a philosophical term which seem to have been coined in the 1980's to refer to the belief that the debate between realism and anti-realism was based on poor assumptions.
		In practice many irrealists where sympathetic to the critique on realism, but were also critical of the idealist, relativist or reductionist tendencies of the anti-realists.
		The obscure history of irrealism in music includes the irrealist hardcore band Suine Anget and a few hardcore bands in Italy.
	nostalgia.wikipedia.org /wiki/Irrealism (140 words)

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		Artist painter Tristan Tondino (1961-2002) claimed to be an Irrealist and held the view that all realities are creations deriving from the needs and desires of living beings.
		As such Irrealism is anti-egocentric, basing truth on sustainability of worlds, not on an absolute relation to any real world.
		Some of his more well known works include ``the rule of the 2`` and ``Un tableau que personne ne veut`` or ``Realism is fascism and reality requires an army``.
	www.kisanji.org /default.aspx?modulo=wikipedia&arg=Irrealism (325 words)

	10/14/00 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		However “naturalism” is best understood generally, in the context of a debate in which considerations of naturalism may motivate irrealism, it is clear that a position’s being naturalist in the relevant sense is insufficient to establish its realism.
		is to show that irrealism is not inevitable by giving a distinctively naturalist and realist theory.
		as well as realists, it is sufficient to motivate irrealism about some areas of discourse to show that items that would be exhaustively expressed by the central terms of that discourse could not be, in some sense, fundamentally natural.
	www.bgsu.edu /departments/phil/faculty/dowell/DossPapb.htm (10174 words)

	DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln \| From conflicting versions to many worlds: An examination of Goodman's ...
		In this dissertation, I argue that the view developed by Nelson Goodman, known as “irrealism,” is a coherent position distinct from the standard conceptions of both realism and idealism.
		However, a careful examination of his central argument for irrealism shows that, at best, there is much work left to do in defending the position.
		Since irrealism is a coherent position, but Goodman's support for it inadequate, I conclude that much work remains in defending the position.
	digitalcommons.unl.edu /dissertations/AAI9962058 (312 words)

	Barry Stroud, The Quest for Reality: Subjectivism and the Metaphysics of Colour (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Stroud's next target is a form of color irrealism that appeals to what he calls an unmasking explanation - that is, ``an explanation that explains away the appearance of something, or explains the belief in it without having to suppose that that belief is true'' (75).
		Forms of this kind of color irrealism are defended by [Hardin, 1988] and [Maund, 1995], among others.
		The brand of irrealism under discussion leaves open the possibility that there is a non-intrinsic property to which yellow sensations are selectively sensitive (for example, there is the disposition to evoke yellow sensations in perceivers).
	aardvark.ucsd.edu /~joncohen/color/stroud.html (6587 words)

	A Guided Tour of Color (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Irrealism about color is, of course, at odds with the common sense view that colors are pervasive features of ordinary objects in the world.
		This is the route to irrealism pursued in [Hardin, 1988] and [Maund, 1995].
		Especially interesting is his transcendental argument against color irrealism: he argues not that color irrealism is false, but that a rational inquirer could never convince herself of its truth by rational means.
	aardvark.ucsd.edu /~joncohen/color/guided_tour.html (10523 words)

	Irrealism: Neurotic pathologies
		To counter-effect a fear of reality, the mind automatically constructs an Irreality, which is in a sense, an ideal world for itself.
		When the mind ceases Observing and begins focusing on its Interepretations of its observations, it loses hold of reality, just like when one makes a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy, the 4th generation copy's quality is nowhere as sharp and precise as the original.
		Re: Irrealism: Neurotic pathologies Tiggy 19:50:14 11/29/99 (
	www.9types.com /type4board/messages/6422.html (865 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		It is doctrines of this meta-linguistic sort that Boghossian calls "irrealism." The eliminativist may say, for example, that nothing satisfies the predicates `is true' or `refers' (Boghossian's "error" thesis); or she may say that those predicates don't refer to any real properties, and/or that sentences containing them are not truth-conditional ("non-factualism").
		We have seen that Boghossian's case against the eliminativist comes down to three allegations: that the incoherent (RCE) is her statement of the error thesis; that (CNF), to which she is clearly committed, is incoherent; and that the fall-back position, austere eliminativism, is necessarily false.
		Or the term can be understood robustly, in which case irrealism is the semantic claim that the central predicates --unlike, by implication, others-- do not stand in a robust answering relation to properties.
	web.gc.cuny.edu /Philosophy/devitt/TRANSC2.DOC (5364 words)

	Irrealism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The obscure history of irrealism in music includes the hardcore band Suine Anget and a few hardcore bands in Italy which espoused the principles of irrealism in their lyrics.
		---- If "irrealism" is as the article claims a "philosophical" term, then -- as an otherwise disinterested reader -- I would appreciate a reference to a few philosophers (rathe than just a rock-band) who have made this argument.
		It would also be useful to know What their specific argument against realism on the other hand, and idealism/relativism/reductionism on the other.
	talk-irrealism.geeks.dnip.net (715 words)

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		Foot note 2_2 the point urged by Boghossian is therefore a crucial one and, if sustained, would have significant consequences for the very possibility of irrealism.
		In the remainder of this paper, «non-factualism» and «irrealism» are used interchangeably.
		In the same case, a disquotationalist would have no need to finesse her stance with respect to the existence of electrons in my kitchen; she simply asserts the identity of such a fact with the fact that «there are electrons in my kitchen» is true -- assuming, of course, that there is such a fact.
	www.sorites.org /Issue_03/item6.htm (6163 words)

	The Academy :: View topic - Starmaking
		In defending irrealism elsewhere I have often come up against the desperate question “but then how can we ever decide or establish anything for certain?”, the idea being that no-one can possibly take this consequence seriously and hence irrealism (or — more typically — relativism) must be nonsense.
		It requires a good deal of effort on the part of the reader and a willingness to accept that ideas are not refuted by the mere fact that they don’t appeal to what we already think we know.
		Many of the finest minds of our time have chewed the fat over irrealism and related questions and that is reason enough to suppose there is more to it than noting its disagreement with realism and dismissing on that charge alone.
	www.galilean-library.org /academy/viewtopic.php?p=42 (1922 words)

	Leonardo Digital Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Using the form of a Platonic dialogue between an imaginary realist and what McLeod terms an 'irrealist', the possibility of there being a case for valid contradictions is considered.
		Yet the two-worlds scenario seems unnecessary when one considers the possible cases where contradictory statements can be true, especially in instances of ambiguity and indeterminacy where opposing or inconclusive states co-exist.
		With one move the metaphysical problems are passed to an external and unaccountable agent.
	mitpress2.mit.edu /e-journals/Leonardo/reviews/aug2003/Realism_pepperell.html (850 words)

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	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In each case I have argued that irrealism, or realism of a false or inappropriate kind, leads to }{\i theory-practice inconsistency}{, }{\i susceptibility to dialectical comment}{, }{\i detotalisation}{, }{\i Tina compromise }{and }{\i ideological plasticity}{.
		He insists in principle upon the \lquote preponderance of the object\rquote over the subject, he insists on the historical understanding of essence, and the link between philosop hical form (identity thinking) and social and historical practice (commodity exchange).
		The pre-historical view of freedom is tailored to be consistent with the view that it is impossible to overcome the dominance of the concept.
	www.sussex.ac.uk /spt/archives/anorrie200211.rtf (7087 words)

	Materialism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Metaphysical Naturalism, Semantic Normativity, and Meta-Semantic Irrealism (with M. Timmons), Philosophical Issues 4 (1993), 180-203.
		We describe and motivate a version of meta-semantic irrealism, situated within a broad orientation toward language-world relations we call contextual semantics.
		The most plausible way to accommodate semantic normativity within a broadly naturalistic metaphysical worldview, we argue, is a version of meta-semantic irrealism which preserves semantic discourse rather than eliminating it, and which eschews semantically reductionist treatments of moral sentences that treat them as equivalent to nondeclarative sentences such as imperatives or ejaculations.
	dingo.sbs.arizona.edu /~thorgan/publications/materialism.htm (692 words)

	cooper
		I explain why the case for irrealism is not compelling, but I also defend a neo-Platonic contrast between the value-laden Real world and the natural Actual world, which captures the reality in virtual reality, in particular the virtual realities we call MUDs.
		In my critique of Goodman's irrealism I am understanding it as a philosophical thesis which denies the existence of a world external to our various representations, and frames of representation; it is philosophical postmodernism.
		Goodman's irrealism goes beyond the anthropological facts about cultures, arguing in effect that there is nothing external to those cultures: they are different ways of world-making, including the ways characteristic of the arts and sciences.
	www.brandeis.edu /pubs/jove/HTML/V5/COOPER.HTM (7959 words)

	Bhaskar message, BHA: irrealism and economics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		However, i don't think that the point of entry is from the lack of irrealism, neo-classicals don't deny this, the point of entry may very well be where Lawson has left off, from his methodological explanatory critique.
		BHA: irrealism and economics, Bwanika Sat 07 Aug 1999, 19:07 GMT
		BHA: irrealism and economics, Bwanika Sun 08 Aug 1999, 01:55 GMT
	archives.econ.utah.edu /archives/bhaskar/1999m08/msg00007.htm (812 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Traditionally, the most prominent strand of irrealism denied that ethical statements are truth-apt or propositional, which clearly marked out their semantics for ethical discourse from realist competitors.
		Although quasi-realism is ostensibly a continuation of this irrealist tradition, its proponents try to capture the realist sounding language of ethical discourse by endorsing semantic minimalism and backing off from the traditional denial of the truth-aptness and propositionality of ethical statements in favor of a psychologistic approach to the semantics of ethical discourse.
		For, upon closer reflection, it seems to be part of the surface phenomena of ordinary ethical discourse that speakers will freely use words like ‘believe’, ‘represent’, and ‘describe’ in conjunction with ethical discourse in a way that belies the expressivist claims that ethical statements are nondescriptive or not expressive of beliefs or representational mental states.
	www.unc.edu /~mattch/infexpress.doc (4751 words)

	Re: Irrealism: Neurotic pathologies
		In Reply to: Irrealism: Neurotic pathologies posted by Cory on November 29, 1999 at 14:31:44:
		I agree, also beleive that all types experience this, but that fours are most acutely aware of them and feel the drastic discrepancies of conflicting sets of worldviews existing side by side.
		Again, applying cognitive therapy, to counter your 'thought Irrealism', is the best most effective method I have used so far to get rid of my 'irrealism', (mostly the third listed on here).
	www.9types.com /type4board/messages/6443.html (979 words)

	Minimal Epistemology: Precis
		These include skepticism, relativism and the leading varieties of irrealism, internalism, foundationalism and anti-naturalism, as well as social constructivism and more.
		In whatever form, terminal philosophy holds that some matters are so fundamental that they are presupposed in any practice of reason-giving; accordingly, if reason-giving were applied to such matters in order to justify them, or even to criticize, then the very attempt to do so would necessarily assume what is at issue, a fatal circularity.
		Chapter 5 begins the more positive part of the book, in which the aim is to provide an alternative to the many terminal accounts of reason-giving -- an account that differs from other epistemologies, classical and contemporary, including foundationalism, coherentism, foundherentism, contextualism and infinitism, among others.
	www.vanderbilt.edu /~postjf/precistphil.htm (3524 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The central claim of the paper is that the distinction between factual and non-factual discourse (key to irrealism) is independent from particular conceptions of truth, and is thus compatible with a deflationary conception.
		This claim is sustained by an examination of what I take to be significant aspects of the deflationary conception.
		I argue therefore directly against Paul Boghossian's paper «The Status of Content», which attempted to show that irrealism about content is inconsistent.
	www.sorites.org /Issue_03/item1.htm (581 words)

	Studi Galileiani (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Starmaking, edited by Peter McCormick, is a compendium of papers by Nelson Goodman, Hilary Putnam, Israel Scheffler and C.G. Hempel and represents a tour de force of writing on the questions of realism, anti-realism and irrealism, along with attendant issues such as relativism, absolutism and pluralism.
		In defending irrealism an oft-heard (and usually desperate) question is “but then how can we ever decide or establish anything for certain?”, the idea being that no-one can possibly take this consequence seriously and hence irrealism (or – more typically – relativism) must be nonsense.
		It requires a good deal of effort on the part of the reader and a willingness to accept that ideas are not refuted by the mere fact that they do not appeal to what we already think we know.
	www.galilean-library.org /blog/wp-trackback.php?p=123 (1827 words)

	Sorites-Meaning Realism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Being minimal, this characterization will serve us to make clear what is entailed by different sorts of irrealisms with respect to meaning, and it will be also useful in order to define minimal realisms and irrealisms concerning semantical properties others than meaning.
		In this sense, sometimes it has been sugested that the Quinean rejection of the A/S distinction would only entail a meaning irrealism concerning isolated statements, but not a meaning irrealism concerning something like the meaning of whole scientific theories of the world.
		STEP 1: In section 3, we have maintained that the adequate definition of analyticity would have to admit theses 1-5 and, therefore, to be itself analytic in the defined sense, i.e., it would have to be analytic1.
	sowi.iwp.uni-linz.ac.at /Sorites/Meaning.html (14406 words)

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