Definition of Realists

1. Noun. (plural of realist) ¹

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Definition of Realists

1. realist [n] - See also: realist

Lexicographical Neighbors of Realists

realisation
realisations
realise
realised
realiser
realisers
realises
realising
realism
realisms
realist
realistic
realistically
realisticity
realisticness
realists (current term)
realities
reality
reality-based
reality TV
reality adaptation
reality awareness
reality challenged
reality check
reality distortion field
reality distortion fields
reality principle
reality show
reality shows
reality television

Literary usage of Realists

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Persistent Problems of Philosophy: An Introduction to Metaphysics by Mary Whiton Calkins (1912)
"NEO-realists (CHIEFLY DUALISTS) FULLER-TON, GS "A System of Metaphysics," ... in "The Program and First Platform of Six realists," Journal of Philosophy, ..."

2. The Contemporary Drama of France by Frank Wadleigh Chandler (1920)
"Ironic realists are those whose temperament necessarily affects their ... Among such ironic realists of the recent French stage, Lemaitre, Lavedan, ..."

3. Evenings with the skeptics; or, Free discussion on free thinkers by John Owen (1881)
"I remember once, when puzzled in some youthful mediaeval studies by finding a mention of realists and nominalists, asking a learned divine, a friend of my ..."

4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"The Nominalists revived the views of Eunomius, and the opposition of the realists was carried to the other extreme by Gilbert de la Porree, who maintained a ..."

5. The Table Talk and Omniana of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With Additional Table by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1888)
"The controversy of the Nominalists and realists was one of the greatest and most ... Duns Scotus was the head of the realists: Ockham,2 his own disciple, ..."

6. A History of European and American Sculpture from the Early Christian Period by Chandler Rathfon Post (1921)
"THE EXTREME realists All these luminaries of the later Quattrocento, however brilliant were outshone by the extreme realists, Antonio Pollaiuolo and Andrea ..."

7. Lectures on the Philosophy of the Human Mind. by Thomas Brown (1826)
"The sect of the Nominalists, the great opponents of the realists, in this too memorable controversy, though some hints of a similar opinion may be traced, ..."

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