Specifically, the two key questions which need to be asked are: "What are possible worlds in general?" and "What is the actual world in particular?" Metaphysical theorizing about possible worlds goes back at least to Leibniz, but the contemporary theorizing is pursued largely on two distinct fronts; possibilist realism and actualist representationism.
It recovers realism's distinct and relevant voice in a short period of rapid change.
Depth realism is distinct from the amount of depth perceived and is important in creating a rewarding stereoscopic experience and a sense of presence and immersion.
Lamarque argues, for instance, that works of literature are of interest because they offer content "with depth, inviting reflection". He calls this "mimesis". Here, a literary critic might argue that Lamarque's broadly "mimetic" view of literature, although it is argued to be distinct from connotations of realism or mirroring nature, is too narrow and excludes, for instance, surrealist poetry.
Realism was a distinct current in 20th-century art and usually stemmed either from artists' desire to present more honest, searching, and unidealized views of everyday life or from their attempts to use art as a vehicle for social and political criticism.
Platonism and working realism are therefore distinct views.
"Palermo or Wolfsburg," his breakthrough film, was a 175-minute epic that evolved through three distinct styles -- Italian neo-realism, Hollywood melodrama and theatrical absurdism -- as it traced the itinerary of its unhappy protagonist from south to north, poverty to prosperity and freedom to imprisonment.
Then there is expressivism, a view distinct from both internalism and nonreductive realism.
Mr. Zimiles's inventive brand of realism is displayed in three distinct, yet related, series in "Murray Zimiles: a Retrospective Exhibition" here at the Neuberger Museum of Art.
To avoid misunderstanding, though, we should note that metaphysical realism and scientific realism are distinct.
