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==Origin==
''Real''- Anglo-Norman ''real'' and Middle French ''reel'', ''real'' (French ''réel'') (adjective) (in [[legal]] use) that concerns [[things]] and not people (1283), [[actual]], concrete (early 14th cent. or earlier in Anglo-Norman), [[material]], [[objective]] (c1370), that actually exists (c1485; in French also true, [[genuine]], authentic.
*real - ''ism'' [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/19th_century 1817]
originally after German Realismus (1781 in Kant; 1798 with [[reference]] to [[literature]])
==Definitions==
*1: concern for [[fact]] or [[reality]] and [[rejection]] of the impractical and [[visionary]]
*2a : a [[doctrine]] that [[universals]] exist outside the [[mind]]; specifically : the [[conception]] that an [[abstract]] term names an independent and unitary [[reality]]
:b : a [[theory]] that objects of sense [[perception]] or [[cognition]] exist independently of the [[mind]] — [[compare]] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominalism nominalism]
*3: the [[theory]] or practice of [[fidelity]] in [[art]] and [[literature]] to [[nature]] or to real life and to accurate [[representation]] without idealization
==Description==
'''Realism''', ''Realist'' or ''Realistic'' are terms that describe any [[manifestation]] of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_realism philosophical realism], the [[belief]] that [[reality]] exists independently of observers, whether in [[philosophy]] itself or in the applied [[arts]] and [[sciences]]. In this broad sense it is frequently contrasted with [[Idealism]].
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Realism_(arts) Realism in the arts] concerns the depiction of subjects as they appear in everyday life. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Realism_in_international_relations_theory Political realism] is a [[dominant]] school of [[thinking]] within the international relations [[discipline]] that prioritizes [[national]] interest and security over [[ideology]], [[moral]] concerns and social reconstructions. In [[ethics]] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_realism moral realism] takes the view that there are [[objective]] [[moral]] [[values]]. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_realism Scientific realism] is the view that the world described by [[science]] is the real world and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_realism Mathematical realism] a branch of philosophy of mathematics.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Realism]
[[Category: Philosophy]]
==Origin==
''Real''- Anglo-Norman ''real'' and Middle French ''reel'', ''real'' (French ''réel'') (adjective) (in [[legal]] use) that concerns [[things]] and not people (1283), [[actual]], concrete (early 14th cent. or earlier in Anglo-Norman), [[material]], [[objective]] (c1370), that actually exists (c1485; in French also true, [[genuine]], authentic.
*real - ''ism'' [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/19th_century 1817]
originally after German Realismus (1781 in Kant; 1798 with [[reference]] to [[literature]])
==Definitions==
*1: concern for [[fact]] or [[reality]] and [[rejection]] of the impractical and [[visionary]]
*2a : a [[doctrine]] that [[universals]] exist outside the [[mind]]; specifically : the [[conception]] that an [[abstract]] term names an independent and unitary [[reality]]
:b : a [[theory]] that objects of sense [[perception]] or [[cognition]] exist independently of the [[mind]] — [[compare]] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominalism nominalism]
*3: the [[theory]] or practice of [[fidelity]] in [[art]] and [[literature]] to [[nature]] or to real life and to accurate [[representation]] without idealization
==Description==
'''Realism''', ''Realist'' or ''Realistic'' are terms that describe any [[manifestation]] of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_realism philosophical realism], the [[belief]] that [[reality]] exists independently of observers, whether in [[philosophy]] itself or in the applied [[arts]] and [[sciences]]. In this broad sense it is frequently contrasted with [[Idealism]].
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Realism_(arts) Realism in the arts] concerns the depiction of subjects as they appear in everyday life. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Realism_in_international_relations_theory Political realism] is a [[dominant]] school of [[thinking]] within the international relations [[discipline]] that prioritizes [[national]] interest and security over [[ideology]], [[moral]] concerns and social reconstructions. In [[ethics]] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_realism moral realism] takes the view that there are [[objective]] [[moral]] [[values]]. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_realism Scientific realism] is the view that the world described by [[science]] is the real world and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_realism Mathematical realism] a branch of philosophy of mathematics.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Realism]
[[Category: Philosophy]]
