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ways in which anti-realism rejects these types of claims can vary dramatically. Because this encompasses statements containing abstract ideal objects (i...

"real" and was first used in the abstract metaphysical sense by Immanuel Kant in 1781 (CPR A 369). Metaphysical realism maintains that "whatever exists...

Magical realism, magic realism, or marvelous realism is a style or genre of fiction and art that presents a realistic view of the world while incorporating...

which universals exist (in opposition to Platonic realism, which asserts the existence of abstract objects), nor do they really exist within particulars...

style that he calls "abstract realism," where the subject is real but the point of view and composition give the painting an abstract quality — resulting...

gained mainstream acceptance in the 1950s, a shift from the American social realism of the 1930s influenced by the Great Depression and Mexican muralists....

Mathematical Platonism is the form of realism that suggests that mathematical entities are abstract, have no spatiotemporal or causal properties, and...

ISBN 978-90-277-1474-9. Abstract and concrete at PhilPapers Nominalism, Realism, Conceptualism, from The Catholic Encyclopedia Abstract vs. Concrete in Writing...

Realism, in international relations theory, is a theoretical framework that views world politics as an enduring competition among self-interested states...

particular ball. In a type–token distinction, a type (e.g., a 'ball') is more abstract than its tokens (e.g., 'that leather soccer ball'). Abstraction in its...

layering of oil paints to create her signature aesthetic of movement and abstract realism. Traditionally, Jenny Saville's nudes have been studied from the gender...

Realism in the arts is generally the attempt to represent subject-matter truthfully, without artificiality, exaggeration, or speculative or supernatural...

Socialist realism was the official cultural doctrine of the Soviet Union that mandated an idealized representation of life under socialism in literature...

world. Realism continued as an ongoing art movement, even experiencing a reemergence in the 1930s, but by the 1950s modernist critics and Abstract Expressionism...

The Vienna School of Fantastic Realism (German: Wiener Schule des Phantastischen Realismus) is a group of artists founded in Vienna in 1946. The group's...

of particulars). Aristotelian realism (also called strong realism or moderate realism) is the rejection of extreme realism. This position establishes the...

Forms or Theory of Ideas, also known as Platonic idealism or Platonic realism, is a philosophical theory credited to the Classical Greek philosopher...

socialist realism has been described as a specific branch of social realism. With the onset of abstract expressionism in the 1940s, social realism had gone...

New realism was a philosophy expounded in the early 20th century by a group of six US based scholars, namely Edwin Bissell Holt (Harvard University),...

Agential realism is a theory proposed by Karen Barad, in which the universe comprises phenomena which are "the ontological inseparability of intra-acting...