1. The prime source for this way of thinking of realism is Michael Dummett. ?Realism I characterize as the belief that statements of the disputed class possess an objective truth-value, independently of our means of knowing it; they are true or false in virtue of a reality existing independently of us? (Truth and Other Enigmas. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1978, p. 146). For other examples see Crispin Wright,Truth and Objectivity (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992) and Simon Blackburn,Spreading the Word (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1984). The present conception of realism is not exactly the same as that of any of these thinkers.
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