Reblogged from Perverse Egalitarianism:
Certain realists (or, rather, "realists") simply proclaim what the world is like, what it consists of, what sort of stuff is real (or, rather, "real") - without even a hint of argumentation or even decency of explaining how they arrived at such conclusions. I propose to call this form of realism (or, rather, "realism") oracular realism.