It is thus appropriate to assume realism along with him and then inquire into the question of which categories there might be.
13 Realism assumes that reality exists independent of human constructions, but that it is only perceptible through our senses.
At a certain level of realism — assuming, that is, that you interpret "Take Shelter" as a film about a man struggling with a psychological disorder — this is an important insight into a painful paradox of mental illness that rarely shows up in movies.
And the view that guides the comings and goings of ordinary life is naïve realism, which assumes that reality consists simply of the objects of sense perception.
In particular, naturalism, especially broadly understood as a methodology rather than ontology, is not automatically committed to the kinds of realism, especially the naïve realism of assuming that our representations reproduce the physical constitution of external objects, that were initially opposed to idealism.
The Mets assumed a noble realism about themselves.
It is widely assumed that moral realism enjoys some sort of presumption in its favor that the anti-realist has to work to overcome.
Assuming that the higher degree of realism of media violence would impact stronger on players in a pretest posttest design, we analyzed the influence of violent video game exposure on implicit and explicit measures of aggressiveness.
21 The philosophical basis is realism, which assumes the existence of an external reality (a 'real world') but one that is 'filtered' (ie, perceived, interpreted and responded to) through human senses, volitions, language and culture.
Its philosophical basis is realism, which assumes the existence of an external reality (a 'real world') but one that is 'filtered' (i.e. perceived, interpreted and responded to) through human senses, volitions, language and culture.
