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en-wikipedia-org-1564		Michael Dummett - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	4675	643	60	Sir Michael Anthony Eardley Dummett[a] FBA (1925–2011) was an English academic described as "among the most significant British philosophers of the last century and a leading campaigner for racial tolerance and equality."[5] He was, until 1992, Wykeham Professor of Logic at the University of Oxford. For Dummett, realism is best understood as semantic realism, i.e., as the view accepting that every declarative sentence in one's language is bivalent (determinately true or false) and evidence-transcendent (independent of our means of coming to know which),[11][2] while anti-realism rejects this view in favour of a concept of knowable (or assertible) truth.[12] Historically, these debates had been understood as disagreements about whether a certain type of entity objectively exists or not. Dummett and Robin Farquharson published influential articles on the theory of voting, in particular conjecturing that deterministic voting rules with more than three issues faced endemic strategic voting.[18] The Dummett–Farquharson conjecture was proved by Allan Gibbard,[19] a philosopher and former student of Kenneth J.	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-1564.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-1564.txt