Irrealism

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. In practice many irrealists were sympathetic to the critique on realism, but were also critical of the idealist, relativist, or reductionist tendencies of the anti-realists.

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• Anti-realism
• Philosophical realism
• Realism

Nelson Goodman: Nelson Goodman (7 August 1906 - 25 November 1998) was an American philosopher, known for work on counterfactuals, mereology, and the problem of induction....

Realism: Realism is commonly defined as a concern for fact or reality and rejection of the impractical and visionary. However, the term realism is used, with varying meanings, in several of the liberal arts; particularly painting, literature, and philosophy. It is also used in international relations. In P...

Anti-realism: In philosophy, the term anti-realism is used to describe any...