Word Meanings - REALISM - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Fidelity to nature or to real life; representation without idealization, and making no appeal to the imagination; adherence to the actual fact. (more info) An opposed to nominalism, the doctrine that genera and species are real things or entities,
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Fidelity to nature or to real life; representation without idealization, and making no appeal to the imagination; adherence to the actual fact. (more info) An 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 , or in re . 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.
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- MAKE AND BREAK
Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker. - APPEALER
One who makes an appeal. - OPPOSABILITY
The condition or quality of being opposable. In no savage have I ever seen the slightest approach to opposability of the great toe, which is the essential distinguishing feature of apes. A. R. Wallace. - ACTUALIZE
To make actual; to realize in action. Coleridge. - MAKING-IRON
A tool somewhat like a chisel with a groove in it, used by calkers of ships to finish the seams after the oakum has been driven in. - GENERABILITY
Capability of being generated. Johnstone. - GENERALIZED
Comprising structural characters which are separated in more specialized forms; synthetic; as, a generalized type. - GENERALIZABLE
Capable of being generalized, or reduced to a general form of statement, or brought under a general rule. Extreme cases are . . . not generalizable. Coleridge - OPPOSITIONIST
One who belongs to the opposition party. Praed. - APPEAL
appellare to approach, address, invoke, summon, call, name; akin to appellere to drive to; ad + pellere to drive. See Pulse, and cf. To make application for the removal of from an inferior to a superior judge or court for a rehearing or review - GENERA
See GENUS - GENERANT
Generative; producing; esp. , - IMAGINATIONALISM
Idealism. J. Grote. - ACTUAL
1. Involving or comprising action; active. Her walking and other actual performances. Shak. Let your holy and pious intention be actual; that is . . . by a special prayer or action, . . . given to God. Jer. Taylor. 2. Existing in act or reality; - OPPOSITIVE
Capable of being put in opposition. Bp. Hall. - GENERALTY
Generality. Sir M. Hale. - SPECIES
A group of individuals agreeing in common attributes, and designated by a common name; a conception subordinated to another conception, called a genus, or generic conception, from which it differs in containing or comprehending more attributes, - OPPOSELESS
Not to be effectually opposed; irresistible. "Your great opposeless wills." Shak. - WITHOUT-DOOR
Outdoor; exterior. "Her without-door form." Shak. - WITHOUTFORTH
Without; outside' outwardly. Cf. Withinforth. Chaucer. - MAJOR GENERAL
. An officer of the army holding a rank next above that of brigadier general and next below that of lieutenant general, and who usually commands a division or a corps. - MANTUAMAKER
One who makes dresses, cloaks, etc., for women; a dressmaker. - UNREGENERACY
The quality or state of being unregenerate. Glanvill. - BOOTMAKER
One who makes boots. -- Boot"mak`ing, n. - RETROGENERATIVE
Begetting young by retrocopulation. - BRICKMAKER
One whose occupation is to make bricks. -- Brick"mak*ing, n. - UNNATURE
To change the nature of; to invest with a different or contrary nature. A right heavenly nature, indeed, as if were unnaturing them, doth so bridle them . Sir P. Sidney. - INGENERATION
Act of ingenerating. - SAILMAKER
One whose occupation is to make or repair sails. -- Sail"mak`ing, n.