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approval A realist is someone who recognizes and accepts the true nature of a situation and tries to deal with it in a practical way. I see myself not as a cynic but as a realist

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One who believes in realism; esp

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A naive realist is a person who believes that what you see is what you get Scientific realists believe that the laws of science are external to and independant of mind

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See Realism, 2

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Generally, someone who claims that various sorts of things that are not realized completely in our (sensory) experience are real The things in question might be, e g : numbers, infinite constructions, material objects, theoretical entities (atoms, the unconscious mind, etc ) and so on During the middle ages "realist" specifically meant someone who maintained that there are universals who maintained that there are universals (e g "horsiness" "humanity") corresponding to words such as "horse" and "human" and not just individual things See nominalist

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{i} one who is concerned with the real; one who portrays things as they truly are

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a painter who represents the world realistically and not in an idealized or romantic style

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A designation for an agent or broker who is a member of the National Association of Real Estate Brokers

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a philosopher who believes that universals are real and exist independently of anyone thinking of them a painter who represents the world realistically and not in an idealized or romantic style a person who accepts the world as it literally is and deals with it accordingly

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A realist painter or writer is one who represents things and people in a way that is like real life. perhaps the foremost realist painter of our times

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One who seeks to recognize, understand, and acknowledge natural laws and their invincibility to violation

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one who is devoted to what is real rather than imaginary

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one who maintains that generals, or the terms used to denote the genera and species of things, represent real existences, and are not mere names, as maintained by the nominalists

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