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date: 24 June 2025

critical realism 

Source:
A Dictionary of Media and Communication
Author(s):

Daniel Chandler,

Rod Munday

(philosophy) A stance that is distinguished from naïve or *common sense *realism in that it involves an acceptance of both the independent, objective existence of the world and of the contention that it can be known only indirectly through a ... ...

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