realist
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- noun
- /ˈriːəlɪst/
- Specialized
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realista
- The interventionist account is a realist account of explanation.
- realist, Hans Morgenthau
- realist position
- realist theory
Before we move on, I suppose briefly, do you give any credence to atheists, moral realist positions?
- Before we move on, I suppose briefly, do you give any credence to atheists, moral realist positions?
Examples
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Legal education infused with insights from the legal realist and law and economics movements is partly an education in policy.
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For the realist, theoretical terms are direct conjectures about unobserved attributes that exist independent of scientific theory.
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And then one other question about the scientific realist perspective.
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Moving beyond this discussion, we will examine an alternative to the realist paradigm.
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Indeed, in the philosophy of science, it is often difficult to tell realists and antirealists apart.
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The realist accepts that such conjectures cannot be verified, and instead submits them to critical tests.
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After summarizing the various realist theories, Friedberg noted that they "leave important unanswered questions."
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The philosopher was a committed realist, arguing that truths exist beyond personal beliefs.
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Many academic debates revolve around whether a realist view can accurately describe the nature of reality.
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In his lecture, the realist insisted that abstract concepts cannot exist without concrete instances.
Antonyms
Compounds
- Offensive
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A person who believes people of different races have natural, important differences
How Real
- Specialized
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- Formal
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word realist comes from real, which goes back to the Latin res meaning 'thing', and the ending -ist meaning 'a person who'. So a philosophical realist thinks universals are real 'things' that exist apart from our minds.