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A concern for fact or reality and rejection of the impractical and visionary.countableuncountable
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An artistic representation of reality as it is.countableuncountable
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The viewpoint that an external reality exists independent of observation.countableuncountable
- Lenin in fact confused epistemological realism with materialism (he repeats several times that materialism consists of recognizing 'objective material reality', 'independent of the subject'-but if so, nearly every Catholic philosopher is a
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A doctrine that universals are real: they exist and are distinct from the particulars that instantiate them.countableuncountable
ant. nominalism · antirealism