Realism



noun
1.
(in art and literature, being ture to nature representing things as they are in reality; the attitude of realist, a tendency to face and be practical; the doctrine that universals are objectvely actual) ប្រាកដនិយម
2.
(បច្ចេកទេស) ប្រាកដនិយម, តថនិយម
  • Legal realism
    - ភាពប្រាកដនិយមនៃច្បាប់, តថនិយមនៃច្បាប់
  • socialist realism
    - ឥថនិយមនៃសង្គមនិយម
ENGLISH MEANING
noun
1.
As 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 (Plato), or in re (Aristotle).
2.
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.
3.
Fidelity to nature or to real life; representation without idealization, and making no appeal to the imagination; adherence to the actual fact.