"realism" Definition

Definitions for the word "realism" from multiple English dictionaries.

1. 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).
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. n.
As opposed to idealism, the doctrine that in sense perception there is an immediate cognition of the external object, and our knowledge of it is not mediate and representative.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. n.
Fidelity to nature or to real life; representation without idealization, and making no appeal to the imagination; adherence to the actual fact.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. n.
1 practice of regarding things in their true nature and dealing with them as they are. 2 fidelity to nature in representation; the showing of life etc. As it is. 3 philos. Doctrine that abstract concepts have an objective existence. realist n.
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884

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