That is to say:
Not directly concerning that deep philosophical subject (which lies, alas, beyond our reach), but dealing more
with just the socionoëtic and lexicographic aspects of the thing. Our principle essay-series
on the matter begins here: Realism: What; and here: The Realist Vernacular. Here
are the latest stray quotations
appended to that.
As a Platonist, he saw everything
on earth as broken arcs, which merely suggested the perfect rounds
above.
-- Louis Auchincloss, The Rector
of Justin (1964), p. 92
Realists [with a capital R] are not
the same thing as ‘realists’ in daily life, who are men who expect neither
themselves nor others to be any better than they ought to be, and generally
much worse.
-- Ernest Gellner, “The crisis in
the humanities” (1964), collected in The Devil in Modern Philosophy
(1974), p. 15
To mathematicians who study them,
moduli schemes are just as real as the regular objects in the world.
-- David Mumford, Forward to Mircea
Pitici, ed., The Best Writing on Mathematics 2012, p. xi
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