realism

As a noun realism is

a concern for fact or reality and rejection of the impractical and visionary.

As a noun realism is

a concern for fact or reality and rejection of the impractical and visionary.

As nouns the difference between taxonomy and realism

is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification while realism is a concern for fact or reality and rejection of the impractical and visionary.

As a noun realism is

a concern for fact or reality and rejection of the impractical and visionary.

In philosophy terms the difference between realism and instrumentalism

is that realism is a doctrine that universals are real—they exist and are distinct from the particulars that instantiate them while instrumentalism is in the philosophy of science, the view that concepts and theories are merely useful instruments whose worth is measured not by whether the concepts and theories are true or false (or correctly depict reality), but how effective they are in explaining and predicting phenomena.

As nouns the difference between realism and instrumentalism

is that realism is a concern for fact or reality and rejection of the impractical and visionary while instrumentalism is in the philosophy of science, the view that concepts and theories are merely useful instruments whose worth is measured not by whether the concepts and theories are true or false (or correctly depict reality), but how effective they are in explaining and predicting phenomena.

As a noun realism

is a concern for fact or reality and rejection of the impractical and visionary.

As a verb objective is

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As nouns the difference between pessimism and realism

is that pessimism is a general belief that bad things will happen while realism is a concern for fact or reality and rejection of the impractical and visionary.

As nouns the difference between existentialism and realism

is that existentialism is a twentieth-century philosophical movement emphasizing the uniqueness of each human existence in freely making its self-defining choices while realism is a concern for fact or reality and rejection of the impractical and visionary.

As nouns the difference between constructivism and realism

is that constructivism is a Russian movement in modern art characterized by the creation of nonrepresentational geometric objects using industrial materials while realism is a concern for fact or reality and rejection of the impractical and visionary.