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11Natural Ontological Attitude — Arthur Fine published The Natural Ontological Attitude [1] in 1984 and a sequel, And Not Antirealism Either [2] in the same year. His subject is the nature and validity of scientific knowledge and his goal is to get the reader to abandon either… …
12Natural deduction — In logic and proof theory, natural deduction is a kind of proof calculus in which logical reasoning is expressed by inference rules closely related to the natural way of reasoning. This contrasts with the axiomatic systems which instead use… …
13Realism — This term describes a production approach in which the theatre attempts to represent everyday life and characters as they are or appear to be. Fidelity to observable life is a goal to be achieved through a natural acting style, colloquial… …
14realism — In everyday use realism is commonly attributed to caution, or moderation in one s aspirations the converse of utopianism . The word is also used to describe a variety of approaches in literature and the visual arts in which accurate depiction of… …
15REALISM AND NATURALISM — When a current literary movement begins to be treated ironically, it usually means that a new set of literary ideas are in the ascendancy. The successor to national romanticism was realism, which also came from outside Scandinavia,… …
Historical Dictionary of Scandinavian Literature and Theater
16Natural philosophy — For the current in the 19th century German idealism, see Naturphilosophie. A celestial map from the 17th century, by the Dutch cartographer Frederik De Wit. Natural philosophy or the philosophy of nature (from Latin philosophia naturalis), is a… …
17realism — /ˈriəlɪzəm / (say reeuhlizuhm) noun 1. interest in or concern for the actual or real, as distinguished from the abstract, speculative, etc. 2. the taking of a practical rather than a moral view in human problems, etc. 3. the tendency to view or… …
18Philosophical realism — Contemporary philosophical realism is the belief that our reality, or some aspect of it, is ontologically independent of our conceptual schemes, linguistic practices, beliefs, etc. Realism may be spoken of with respect to other minds, the past,… …
19naive realism — noun (philosophy) the philosophical doctrine that physical objects continue to exist when not perceived • Syn: ↑realism • Topics: ↑philosophy • Hypernyms: ↑philosophical doctrine, ↑philosophical theory …
20naive realism — naive realist. Philos. the theory that the world is perceived exactly as it is. Also called commonsense realism, natural realism. [1880 85] * * * …
