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  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Realism  \Re"al*ism\,  n.  [Cf.  F.  r['e]alisme.] 
  1.  (Philos.) 
  a  An  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). 
  b  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. 
 
  2.  (Art  &  Lit.)  Fidelity  to  nature  or  to  real  life; 
  representation  without  idealization,  and  making  no  appeal 
  to  the  imagination;  adherence  to  the  actual  fact 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  realism 
  n  1:  art  and  literature  that  represents  events  and  social 
  conditions  as  they  actually  are  (without  idealization) 
  2:  the  attribute  of  accepting  the  facts  of  life  and  favoring 
  practicality  and  literal  truth 
  3:  the  state  of  being  actual  or  real:  "the  reality  of  his 
  situation  slowly  dawned  on  him"  [syn:  {reality},  {realness}] 
  [ant:  {unreality}] 
  4:  the  philosophical  doctrine  that  physical  object  continue  to 
  exist  when  not  perceived  [syn:  {naive  realism}] 
  5:  an  artistic  movement  in  19th  century  France;  artists  and 
  writers  strove  for  detailed  realistic  and  factual 
  description  [syn:  {naturalism}] 
  6:  the  philosophical  doctrine  that  abstract  concepts  exist 
  independent  of  their  names  [syn:  {Platonism}] 
 
  From  THE  DEVIL'S  DICTIONARY  ((C)1911  Released  April  15  1993)  [devils]: 
 
  REALISM,  n.  The  art  of  depicting  nature  as  it  is  seem  by  toads.  The 
  charm  suffusing  a  landscape  painted  by  a  mole,  or  a  story  written  by  a 
  measuring-worm.




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