Realist Sentence Examples

Horatius Flaccus or Horace (68-8) is both the realist and the idealist of his age.

If Alexander is responsible for such doctrines as that of the intellectus acquisitus, it is to Porphyry, with his characteristically Platonist preference for the doctrine of universals, and for classification, that we owe the scholastic preoccupation with the realist controversy, and with the quinque votes, i.e.

But those who treat him as the great 2 Still, Lotze's criticism of the cosmological argument reveals his realist side.

The difference between Tacitus and Juvenal in power of representation is that the prose historian is more of an imaginative poet, the satirist more of a realist and a grotesque humorist.

In Germany, for example, Eugen Diihring (q.v.) was a realist, whose intention is to prove against Kant a knowledge of the thing in itself by attributing time, space and categories generally to the real world.

He was a psychological idealist and a metaphysical realist.

In the matter of Universals, Duns was more of a realist and less of an eclectic than Aquinas.

The realist, then, ought to begin with metaphysics without psychological prejudices.

According to this alternative, these organic bodies are compound or corporeal substances, between monads and phenomena; and Leibnitz is a metaphysical realist.

Up to the fourth class all pupils are taught alike in the lyceums; in the fifth, however, they are divided into a literary or " humanist " section, and a scientific or " realist " section.

Powell's films are the absolute antithesis of realist cinema.

Only by having the cold compress of ' magic realist ' applied has he escaped the inferior label.

As to realist conservatism, she highlighted a certain air de famille between Realism and Conservatism.

He was the giant of the new realist theater at a time when our West End was still dallying with drawing room comedies.

I conclude by sketching how a suitable realist epistemology may avoid this problem.

A third influential position which emerged during this realist period was semantic externalism.

My argument is that mechanical realist metaphysics are necesssary in order to make it seamless.

Once again the critical realist stratified ontology lends itself to a particular slant on this issue.

However, many of the advantages of triangulation can be gained even without a full commitment to a realist ontology.

Williams has earned a reputation as one of Britain's foremost realist painters.

She leaves fantasy behind, and becomes a realist.

Better, I would like to see a European strategy - but I remain a realist.

By contrast, the same fact appears to pose a serious challenge for the non-reductive realist.

This ' naive realist ' view places the authority of science firmly in the techniques involved in the method of inquiry itself.

Can the moral realist explain the motivational force of our moral convictions?

Worship is an autonomous activity for the critical realist too.

Today, anybody who claims that the seen world is the real world is liable to be termed a naïve realist.

In the process of testing his own conclusions, McNay challenges the widely accepted view that Acheson was a foreign policy realist.

The study puts forward an alternative explanation for such sponsorship that is an alternative theory to standard realist and neo realist explanations.

Like all great satirists, Orton was a realist.

The six books pass in review (1) the doctrine of the soul, in which Gersonides defends the theory of impersonal reason as mediating between God and man, and explains the formation of the higher reason (or acquired intellect, as it was called) in humanity, - his view being thoroughly realist and resembling that of Avicebron; (2) prophecy; (3) and (4) God's knowledge of facts and providence, in which is advanced the curious theory that God does not know individual facts, and that, while there is general providence for all, special providence only extends to those whose reason has been enlightened; (5) celestial substances, treating of the strange spiritual hierarchy which the Jewish philosophers of the middle ages accepted from the Neoplatonists and the pseudo-Dionysius, and also giving, along with astronomical details, much of astrological theory; (6) creation and miracles, in respect to which Gerson deviates widely from the position of Maimonides.

Gareth is one of the most exciting, new realist painters to emerge into the art world.

The stated approach of Burnett is to examine the history of drinks beyond any purely realist notions of physiological need or innate desire.

On Radio 4, Melvyn Bragg recently discussed the Victorian realist novel.

It 's realist fiction as far as I 'm concerned.

They are social realist in the true sense of the term.

Realist Approach 5.1 The proper representation of social reality has therefore become contested.

Firstly, Malcolm presumes a certain understanding of God based on traditional Christian theism which is typically expressed in realist terms.

However, in a realist world, sometimes there have been problems with your loved ones and their death may complicate feelings or issues you held.

Realist make him almost if not quite intuitionalist; while there is also an idealist reading possible.

Remigius is thus a Realist, not so much in the sense of Plato as in the spirit of Parmenides, and Haureau applies to this form of Realism Bayle's description of Realism in general as " le Spinosisme non developpe."

But now the greater boldness of the dialecticians awakened a spirit of general distrust in the exercise of reason on sacred subjects, and we find even a Realist like Gilbert de la Porree arraigned by Bernard and his friends before a general council on a charge of heresy (at Rheims, 1148).

He has been called Kantian and Neo-Kantian, Realist and Idealist (by himself, for he held that appearance and reality are co-extensive and coincident).

He was one of the first to attack the realist doctrines of Duns Scotus, and is interesting mainly as the precursor of William of Occam in his revival of Nominalism.

The poet Aarestrup (in 1848) declared that Blicher had raised the Danish language to the dignity of Icelandic. Blicher is a stern realist, in many points akin to Crabbe, and takes a singular position among the romantic idealists of the period, being like them, however, in the love of precise and choice language, and hatred of the mere commonplaces of imaginative writing.

As a convinced realist he took his standpoint on nature and experience, and could afford to look on objectively at the controversies of the metaphysicians.

It is a notable feature of the new movement, that except verbally, in a certain licence of nominalist expression, due to the swing of the pendulum away from the realist doctrine of universals, there is little that we can characterize as Empiricism.

He was content to voice the cry for the overthrow of the dominant system as such, and to call for a new beginning, with no realist presuppositions.

Forcing upon the Realist a material change of doctrine, he was once more victorious, and thenceforth he stood supreme.

Though he may technically be classed as an " extreme realist, " Duns is the forerunner of those later Nominalists, like William of Occam, who unsettled every intellectual ground of belief in order that they might resettle belief upon Church authority, not reason but rather scepticism being for them the ancilla domini.

Count Billow, indeed, though, like Bismarck, a "realist," utilitarian and opportunist in his policy, made no effort to emulate the masterful independence of the great chancellor.

A realist response to this kind of incommensurability may appeal to externalist or naturalized epistemology.

He dissents as a realist from the Cosmological argument in the form' in which 'it concludes from " contingent " to " necessary " being.

This is manifestly true, however real the facts may be which are designated by the generic and specific names; and the position is fully accepted, as has been seen, by a Realist like Gilbert, who perhaps adopted it first from Abelard.

Epistemologically von Hartmann is a transcendental realist, who ably defends his views and acutely criticizes those of his opponents.

For the natural realist stands upon the common-sense position that minds and material objects have equally effective existence; while the idealist explains matter by mind and denies that mind can be explained by matter.