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Normativity vs Realism - What's the difference?

normativity | realism |

As nouns the difference between normativity and realism

is that normativity is the state of being normative while realism is a concern for fact or reality and rejection of the impractical and visionary.

normativity

English

Noun

(-)
  • the state of being normative
  • the state of being a norm

    • Synonyms

    * normativeness (less common )

    See also

    * descriptivity * prescriptivity

    realism

    English

    (wikipedia realism)

    Noun

  • A concern for fact or reality and rejection of the impractical and visionary
  • An artistic representation of reality as it is
  • (sciences) The viewpoint that an external reality exists independent of observation
  • (philosophy) A doctrine that universals are real—they exist and are distinct from the particulars that instantiate them

    • Antonyms

    * (doctrine concerning universals) nominalism

    See also

    * idealism

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