Word Meanings - REALISM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Fidelity to nature or to real life; representation without idealization, and making no appeal to the imagination; adherence to the actual fact. (more info) An opposed to nominalism, the doctrine that genera and species are real things or entities,

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Fidelity to nature or to real life; representation without idealization, and making no appeal to the imagination; adherence to the actual fact. (more info) 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 , or in re . 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.

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• MAKE AND BREAK
  Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker.
• APPEALER
  One who makes an appeal.
• OPPOSABILITY
  The condition or quality of being opposable. In no savage have I ever seen the slightest approach to opposability of the great toe, which is the essential distinguishing feature of apes. A. R. Wallace.
• ACTUALIZE
  To make actual; to realize in action. Coleridge.
• MAKING-IRON
  A tool somewhat like a chisel with a groove in it, used by calkers of ships to finish the seams after the oakum has been driven in.
• GENERABILITY
  Capability of being generated. Johnstone.
• GENERALIZED
  Comprising structural characters which are separated in more specialized forms; synthetic; as, a generalized type.
• GENERALIZABLE
  Capable of being generalized, or reduced to a general form of statement, or brought under a general rule. Extreme cases are . . . not generalizable. Coleridge
• OPPOSITIONIST
  One who belongs to the opposition party. Praed.
• APPEAL
  appellare to approach, address, invoke, summon, call, name; akin to appellere to drive to; ad + pellere to drive. See Pulse, and cf. To make application for the removal of from an inferior to a superior judge or court for a rehearing or review
• GENERA
  See GENUS
• GENERANT
  Generative; producing; esp. ,
• IMAGINATIONALISM
  Idealism. J. Grote.
• ACTUAL
  1. Involving or comprising action; active. Her walking and other actual performances. Shak. Let your holy and pious intention be actual; that is . . . by a special prayer or action, . . . given to God. Jer. Taylor. 2. Existing in act or reality;
• GENERALTY
  Generality. Sir M. Hale.
• OPPOSITIVE
  Capable of being put in opposition. Bp. Hall.
• SPECIES
  A group of individuals agreeing in common attributes, and designated by a common name; a conception subordinated to another conception, called a genus, or generic conception, from which it differs in containing or comprehending more attributes,
• OPPOSELESS
  Not to be effectually opposed; irresistible. "Your great opposeless wills." Shak.
• WITHOUT-DOOR
  Outdoor; exterior. "Her without-door form." Shak.
• WITHOUTFORTH
  Without; outside' outwardly. Cf. Withinforth. Chaucer.
• MAJOR GENERAL
  . An officer of the army holding a rank next above that of brigadier general and next below that of lieutenant general, and who usually commands a division or a corps.
• MANTUAMAKER
  One who makes dresses, cloaks, etc., for women; a dressmaker.
• UNREGENERACY
  The quality or state of being unregenerate. Glanvill.
• BOOTMAKER
  One who makes boots. -- Boot"mak`ing, n.
• RETROGENERATIVE
  Begetting young by retrocopulation.
• BRICKMAKER
  One whose occupation is to make bricks. -- Brick"mak*ing, n.
• UNNATURE
  To change the nature of; to invest with a different or contrary nature. A right heavenly nature, indeed, as if were unnaturing them, doth so bridle them . Sir P. Sidney.
• INGENERATION
  Act of ingenerating.
• SAILMAKER
  One whose occupation is to make or repair sails. -- Sail"mak`ing, n.