Irrealism is a philosophical term which seem to have been coined in the 1980's to refer to the belief that the debate between realism
? and
anti-realism was based on poor assumptions. In practice many irrealists where sympathetic to the critique on realism, but were also critical of the
idealist, relativist
? or reductionist
? tendencies of the anti-realists.
Some irrealists have adopted a militancy uncharacteristic of members of other philosophical tendencies and put irrealist theories into practice. The obscure history of irrealism in music includes the irrealist hardcore? band [Suine Anget]? and a few hardcore bands in Italy.
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