new realistn.
/ˌnjuː ˈrɪəlɪst/, U.S. /ˌn(j)u ˈriələst/ Philosophy (chiefly U.S.). Now historical.
A supporter or advocate of new realism.
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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > materialism > [noun] > new realism > adherent of
neo-realist1904
new realist1909
the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > materialism > [adjective] > of other doctrines and their advocates
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new realist1947
1909 Mind 18 173 The New Realist gets so absorbed in his object that he takes no account of the subject at all.
1929 C. I. Lewis Mind & World-order ii. 39 Immediacy is thus emphasized..by the American new-realists.
1947 Mind 56 290 As everyone knows, the revolt against Idealism, initiated chiefly by Moore and Russell in this country and by the New Realist group in the United States, proved quite prodigiously successful.
1966 F. C. Copleston Hist. Philos. VIII. v. xvii. 387 The new realists were at any rate agreed on the truth of a basic tenet.., ‘things known are not products of the knowing relation nor essentially dependent for their existence or behaviour upon that relation’.
1994 S. Blackburn Oxf. Dict. Philos. 260/2 In America philosophers defining themselves as new realists included F. J. Woodbridge and R. B. Perry.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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