Sentences with phrase «subjectivist who»

More generally, it stands within the «realist» tradition in affirming the objective reality of the orders of truth and other kinds of excellence, as against nominalists and subjectivists who believe that knowledge is essentially a human construct and values are nothing but human preferences.

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Seifert represents the school called «phenomenological realism,» which builds on the work of the early Edmund Husserl and does spirited battle against the legions of «transcendental idealists» (i.e., subjectivists) who fight under the banner of Kant and his sometimes improbable allies.

If one who holds the subjectivist principle posits the reality of a world of actual entities spatially and / or temporally beyond the present moment of experience, and the reality of causal interaction among these entities, one does so solely on the basis of inference, not direct knowledge.