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Speculative vs Realist - What's the difference?

speculative | realist |

As adjectives the difference between speculative and realist

is that speculative is while realist is .

speculative

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Characterized by speculation; based on guessing or unfounded opinions.
  • *
  • *:"Don't dare laugh at us!" smiled his sister. "I wish we were back in Tenth Street. But so many children cameand the Tenth Street house wasn't half big enough; and a dreadful speculative builder built this house and persuaded Austin to buy it. Oh, dear, and here we are among the rich and great; and the steel kings and copper kings and oil kings and their heirs and dauphins. Do you like the house?"
  • *{{quote-news, year=2011, date=June 4, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC
    • , title= England 2-2 Switzerland , passage=Tranquillo Barnetta was the grateful beneficiary of uncertain England defending and poor goalkeeping from Joe Hart as he twice saw speculative free-kicks end in the back of the net in the first half.}}

    Derived terms

    * speculativeness

    Related terms

    * speculate * speculativity

    See also

    * conjectural

    realist

    English

    (wikipedia realist)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (philosophy) An advocate of realism; one who believes that matter, objects etc. have real existence beyond our perception of them.
  • * 1946 , (Bertrand Russell), History of Western Philosophy , I.19:
    • Aristotle's own doctrine is far from clear. It was this lack of clarity that made possible the medieval controversy between nominalists and realists .
  • One who believes in seeing things the way they really are, as opposed to how they would like them to be.
  • (arts, literature) An adherent of the realism movement; an artist who seeks to portray real everyday life accurately.

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