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‘Realism’ refers, not to a single, simple thesis, but to a whole family of positions; and so it contrasts, not with a single, simple, opposing thesis, but with another whole family of non-realist positions — idealism, nominalism, instrumentalism, relativism, irrealism, etc., etc.

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