Just a very brief note on the relationship between postmodernist
perspectives and realism - postmodernists denounce realism of any kind
because all realist perspectives argue that there is something that can,
in principle, be known and that some accounts of reality are better than
others. Realism in other words is primarily an ontological programme
whereas postmodernism is an epistemological programme and essentially
relativist. One point which might commend realism even to Scott is that
it has a coherent account of complex causation which would seem to me to
be necessary for any discussion of causal processes in relation to
simulation.
David Byrne
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