ideal+reality
1Reality — Reality, in everyday usage, means the state of things as they actually exist . [Compact Oxford English Dictionary of Current English, Oxford University Press, 2005 (Full entry for reality : reality • noun (pl. realities) 1 the state of things as… …
2ideal type — Ideal types in sociology are most closely associated with the name of Max Weber , although as a method of investigation and explanation they are more commonly found in economics, for example in the concept of the perfect market. For Weber, the… …
3Reality television — This article is about the genre of TV shows. For the European channel once called Reality TV , see Zone Reality. Reality television is a genre of television programming that presents purportedly unscripted dramatic or humorous situations,… …
4ideal type — a construct abstracted from experience in which individual elements are combined to form a whole that is conceptually independent of empirical factors or variables, but against which particular examples of the appropriate class found in life can… …
5Ideal (ethics) — An ideal is a principle or value that one actively pursues as a goal. Ideals are particularly important in ethics, as the order in which one places them tends to determine the degree to which one reveals them as real and sincere. It is roughly… …
6ideal language — in analytic philosophy, a language that is precise, free of ambiguity, and clear in structure, on the model of symbolic logic, as contrasted with ordinary language, which is vague, misleading, and sometimes contradictory. In the Tractatus… …
7ideal type — noun : an abstraction of features from empirical reality and their embodiment into a unified conceptual scheme of hypothetical validity sees the ideal type of monogamy in Christian marriage Rodney Needham analysis of social situations by the use… …
8Reality of Virtual Characters — ▪ 2004 In 2003 the final film of The Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Return of the King, further demonstrated what had been realized the year before in the second of the series, The Two Towers how absolutely real a computer generated (CG)… …
9ideal — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. model, paragon; idol, hero; perfect example. adj. visionary; unattainable, Platonic, abstract, Utopian, perfect; impracticable. See imagination, nonexistence, perfection. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1.… …
10fable, parable, and allegory — Introduction any form of imaginative literature (allegory) or spoken utterance constructed in such a way that readers or listeners are encouraged to look for meanings hidden beneath the literal surface of the fiction. A story (rhetoric) is… …
