Definition of "realists" [realists]

• Plural form of realist. (noun)

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• "Atheists -- some prefer the term realists, which has less emotional baggage -- should continue to advocate the end of tax breaks for religious groups and the creation of a strong wall of separation between church and state."
• "The problem with metaphysical realists is that they need to insist we are all flies in the bottle, for good or ill, and that is simply not true – a gross exaggeration of the importance of epistemology, one of the few useful points to take from PMN. myglesias says:"
• "It may not provide James Wood with a sampling of the human that meets his high moral standards, but to suggest that the dispute between realists and anti-realists is over who gets to be more "human" seems to me supremely unjust, if not simply absurd."