Realism meaning

rēə-lĭzəm
Realism is a representation of how things really are, or being practical and facing facts.

An example of realism is the rejection of mythical beings.

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A tendency to face facts and be practical rather than imaginative or visionary.
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A concern for fact or reality and rejection of the impractical and visionary.
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(sciences) The viewpoint that an external reality exists independent of observation.
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(philosophy) A doctrine that universals are real"”they exist and are distinct from the particulars that instantiate them.
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The representation in art or literature of objects, actions, or social conditions as they actually are, without idealization or presentation in abstract form.
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The picturing in art and literature of people and things as they really appear to be, without idealizing.
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An inclination toward literal truth and pragmatism.
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Realism Sentence Examples

  • His realism enables him to maintain the reality of Time, and so of the process of the world's redemption.

  • Hamilton (Discussions, p. 197) allows greater sagacity to Collier than to Berkeley, on the ground that he did not vainly attempt to enlist men's natural belief against the hypothetical realism of the philosophers.

  • Finally the theory defined is opposed to all forms of realism, whether in the older form which sought to reduce mind to a function of matter, or in any of the newer forms which seek for the ultimate essence of both mind and matter in some unknown force or energy which, while in itself it is neither, yet contains the potentiality of both.

  • Maurice, whose character, marked by " religious realism," sought in the past " the witness to eternal truths, the manifestation by time-samples of infinite realities and unchanging relations";4 and Charles Kingsley, " a great teacher," though one " certain to go astray the moment he becomes didactic."

  • And accordingly it gave rise to the three great doctrines which divided the medieval schools: Realism of the Platonic type, embodied in the formula universalia ante rein; Realism of the Aristotelian type, universalia in re; and Nominalism, including Conceptualism, expressed by the phrase universalia post rem, and also claiming to be based upon the Peripatetic doctrine.

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