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The definition of realism
7 Definitions of: realism
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- noun, awareness or acceptance of the physical universe, events, etc, as they are, as opposed to the abstract or ideal
- noun, awareness or acceptance of the facts and necessities of life; a practical rather than a moral or dogmatic view of things
- noun, a style of painting and sculpture that seeks to represent the familiar or typical in real life, rather than an idealized, formalized, or romantic interpretation of it
- noun, any similar school or style in other arts, esp literature
- noun, philosophy the thesis that general terms such as common nouns refer to entities that have a real existence separate from the individuals which fall under them. See also universal
- noun, philosophy the theory that physical objects continue to exist whether they are perceived or not. Compare idealism, phenomenalism
- noun, logic philosophy the theory that the sense of a statement is given by a specification of its truth conditions, or that there is a reality independent of the speaker's conception of it that determines the truth or falsehood of every statement
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