Look up: realism

1. Realism
   In the arts, the accurate, detailed, unembellished depiction of nature or of contemporary life. Realism rejects imaginative idealization in favour of a close observation of outward appearances. As such, realism in its broad sense has comprised many artistic currents in different civilizations. In th...
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2. Realism
   The property of a model that it represents the best understanding of the composite processes available.
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3. Realism
   Term measuring the historical fidelity of a rules system (or, for a non- historical game, how 'real' the rules seem to be).
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4. realism
   [n] - the philosophical doctrine that physical object continue to exist when not perceived 2. [n] - the attribute of accepting the facts of life and favoring practicality and literal truth
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5. Realism
   scientific method that theorises a 'problematic' in order to see what is really going on
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6. Realism
   A wargaming term measuring the historical fidelity of a rules system (or for a non-historical wargame, how 'real' the rules seem to be).
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7. Realism
   Art style which evolved in the 19th century where a painting produced a view of the natural world in a highly representational way. Subjects were selected from everyday events and situations.
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8. realism
   In philosophy, the theory that universals (properties such as `redness`) have an existence independent of the human mind. Realists hold that the (rē' a l*ĭz'm) noun [ Confer French réalisme .] 1. (Philos.) (a) As opposed to nominalism , the doctrine that genera and species are real things or entities, existing independently of ...
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9. realism
   pragmatism noun the attribute of accepting the facts of life and favoring practicality and literal truth
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10. realism
    naive realism noun (philosophy) the philosophical doctrine that physical objects continue to exist when not perceived
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11. Realism
    • (n.) As opposed to nominalism, the doctrine that genera and species are real things or entities, existing independently of our conceptions. According to realism the Universal exists ante rem (Plato), or in re (Aristotle). • (n.) Fidelity to nature or to real life; representation without ...
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12. realism
    (from the article `international relations`) ...conflict resolution and adherence to international law grew more distant from the existing world of aggressive dictatorships, a new approach to ... ...Carl J. Friedrich, Schuman, Harold Sprout, Nicholas Spykman, and others developed the main lines of what became the `power-politics
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13. Realism
    (from the article `Performing Arts`) ...International Festival was marked by an acclaimed program of concerts and theatre productions, notably Peter Stein`s wide-screen Troilus and ...
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14. realism
    (from the article `Belgian literature`) Led by a Realist, Domien Sleeckx, a reaction against Romanticism set in about 1860. Writing became characterized by acute observation, description of ... ...school, restrained in England, less so in the United States, but manifest in the children`s literature of much of the world. It failed to pro...
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15. realism
    in the arts, the accurate, detailed, unembellished depiction of nature or of contemporary life. Realism rejects imaginative idealization in favour of ... [38 related articles]
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16. Realism
    in philosophy, the viewpoint which accords to things which are known or perceived an existence or nature which is independent of whether anyone is ... [22 related articles]
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17. Realism
    Literary period when writers tried to portray characters, events, situations, and social conditions as they really were.
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18. realism
    A theory of international relations holding that struggles are resolved on the basis of power of conflicting parties.
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19. realism
    realism, in literature, an approach that attempts to describe life without idealization or romantic subjectivity. Although realism is not limited to any one century or group of writers, it is most often associated with the literary movement in 19th-century France, specifically with the French noveli...
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20. realism
    realism, in philosophy. 1. In medieval philosophy realism represented a position taken on the problem of universals. There were two schools of realism. Extreme realism, represented by William of Champeaux, held that universals exist independently of both the human mind and particular things—a ...
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21. Realism
    Theory of the reality of abstract or general terms, or umversals, which are held to have an equal and sometimes a superior reality to actual physical particulars. Umversals exist before things, ante res. Opposed to nominalism (q.v.) according to which universals have a being only after things, post ...
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22. Realism
    Artistic genres that emphasize the subject rather than the director's point of view. Realism in film and other two-dimensional art forms often contends with contemporary issues of social import
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