单词 | realism |
释义 | realism/ˈrɪəlɪz(ə)m /noun [mass noun] 1The attitude or practice of accepting a situation as it is and being prepared to deal with it accordingly: the summit was marked by a new mood of realism...
Synonyms pragmatism, practicality, matter-of-factness, common sense, level-headedness, clear-sightedness 1.1The view that the subject matter of politics is political power, not matters of principle: political realism is the oldest approach to global politics...
1.2The doctrine that the law is better understood by analysis of judges rather than the judgements given: modern jurists have tended to underestimate the scope of American legal realism...
2The quality or fact of representing a person or thing in a way that is accurate and true to life: British soaps will stay because of their gritty realism...
Synonyms authenticity, fidelity, verisimilitude, truthfulness, faithfulness, naturalism informal telling it like it is 2.1An artistic or literary movement or style characterized by the representation of people or things as they actually are. Often contrasted with idealism (sense 1).Within the context of art, say of realism versus expressionism, you can have a realistic body or an expressionistic body....
While realism in art is often used in the same contexts as naturalism, implying a concern with accurate and objective representation, it also suggests a deliberate rejection of conventionally attractive or appropriate subjects in favour of sincerity and a focus on the unidealized treatment of contemporary life. Specifically, the term is applied to a late 19th-century movement in French painting and literature represented by Gustave Courbet in the former and Balzac, Stendhal, and Flaubert in the latter. 3 Philosophy The doctrine that universals or abstract concepts have an objective or absolute existence. The theory that universals have their own reality is sometimes called Platonic realism because it was first outlined by Plato’s doctrine of ‘forms’ or ideas. Often contrasted with nominalism.There's little indication of the available range of ethical theories, from crude emotivism to Platonic realism, from McDowellian objectivism to virtue theory....
3.1The doctrine that matter as the object of perception has real existence and is neither reducible to universal mind or spirit nor dependent on a perceiving agent. Often contrasted with idealism (sense 2).Abelard defends his thesis that universals are nothing but words by arguing that ontological realism about universals is incoherent....
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