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Contemporary British Realism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2009

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Anyone who thinks, for example, of “realism,” “sur-realism,” and the like in matters of art, or of the vulgar and journalistic vagueness in the use of the adjective “realistic,” may be prepared for the discovery that in philosophy also the term “realist” is either uncomfortably fluid or else acquires technical senses that are rather easily blurred. Our lexicographers tell us that, in its most general sense, “realism” indicates fidelity to what is real, particularly in the representation of (usually sordid) matters of fact, and that in philosophy it is an antithetic term, asserting the contrary either of

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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1937

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References

page 165 Note 1 See Aristotelian Society Proceedings (= A.P.), April 1921, pp. 134 sqq.

page 166 Note 1 Cited hereafter as S.T.D.

page 167 Note 1 Or “objectives” in Meinong’s terminology.