... words you read that prompted you to imagine mouth-frothing. The 'materialist' part is a conclusion drawn because of your obsession with "particulars" in preference to essence. Actually, it's closer to constructive realism than to materialism. If your "essence" cannot be translated into particulars, then you don't understand the "essence" you're trying to talk about. Is magick about mechanisms these days? Yes, it ...

... feeling, for the first time in my life, that dimwittedness is not just on the march in the U.S., but that it might actually prevail." McCain's Record Beyond the studied anti-intellectualism -- even anti-realism -- now surrounding the McCain-Palin campaign, there is another longer-term question of whether McCain's current behavior is just a "campaign mode" aberration or whether he ever deserved the favorable depiction as a "maverick" ...

... within the ER." If you are not postulating such externals, and also, apparently, not theoretical externals such as atoms, then do you postulate any externals at all? Nor does postulating externals evidence or entail metaphysical realism, because there is no claim that the entities postulated are "things in themselves." We do not pretend to be speaking of "things in themselves." I think we'll just have to agree to ...

...to claim that it exists "beyond the ER" unless by doing so we are subscribing to metaphysical realism. We are entitled to claim it exists if we can find empirical evidence (evidence within the ER) ... not have the empirical consequences predicted for the thing. Nor does postulating externals evidence or entail metaphysical realism, because there is no claim that the entities postulated are "things in themselves." We do not pretend ...

... that comes nearest to summing-up the conditional dependencies of perception / conception in a single expression. I guess that if one conceives of a domain of "things in themselves" (metaphysical realism) as "absolute truth" (or "true reality") then the connection is established. "Perspectivism rejects objectivism as impossible, and claims that there are no objective evaluations which transcend cultural formations or ...

...that problem. i wasn't as wrapped, the romantic and sexual experience wasn't over hyped and i wasn't grasping onto teenage notions of love anymore. we did have a real emotional thing going, but it was the acceptance or realism of myself and relationships that made it smoother than the last time. there was a time when my emotions were peaking and i wanted much to fully throw myself into it and let the emotions soar and all of that but i ...

... own life, and stop belieivng all the lies that get spewed about how great things are, and how everything is under control and will get better soon. imho. The unemployed, unemployable, retired poor (laborer no longer able to labor) and others who live in areas of despair know a certain realism that America denies exist. Are we the new Dispossessed? Well about no sure about the use of the word "new". :)

... getting scared. No need to be scared. Just take real control of your own life, and stop belieivng all the lies that get spewed about how great things are, and how everything is under control and will get better soon. imho. The unemployed, unemployable, retired poor (laborer no longer able to labor) and others who live in areas of despair know a certain realism that America denies exist. Are we the new Dispossessed?

...most trade union members & indeed petty bouegeoise ordinary service station franchisees, are by ...definition "rightwing" & "reactionary" types I am not (unfortunately) making crap up: to me it's harsh realism and not paranoia The Republican Party has been catering its literalist Supreme Court, anti birth control, anti-evolution, and general "flat earth" pitch to yahooism since at least Nixon's "southern strategy," tho ...

...> You seem to be arguing for realism, and Witt seems to be arguing that neither realism nor solipsism may be ruled out. No. I'm arguing for constructivism. Constructivism is not realism. Witt is the realist. Witt (of the ... to be pointing out some difficulties with realism, and trying to find a workaround without ...to the ER -- that logical possibility (metaphysical realism) cannot be eliminated, but neither can other ...