Sentence examples for extreme realism from inspiring English sources

Later, in the period from 1900 to 1918, Kantianism was represented by the extreme realism of the theist Francesco Orestano.

For starters, he may have been guilty of little more than what he might have viewed as extreme realism, flawed as that might have been.

Only one subsequent Italian painter, Caravaggio, would ever come close to rivalling him, and that was by adopting alien forms of extreme realism.

The continuous, brutal action and the extreme realism of the dialogue of Miss Julie and other plays written between 1887 and 1893 reached the ne plus ultra of naturalistic drama.

Although Plato's extreme realism has found few advocates, in the later 20th century there was a revival of interest in Aristotle's moderate realism, a version of which has been defended with important modifications by the Australian philosopher David Armstrong.

Plato's pupil Aristotle reacted against the extreme realism which he took Plato to be endorsing: the thesis of universalia ante res (Latin: "universals before things"), according to which universals exist in their own right, prior to and independently of their instantiation by sensible particulars.

The basic position underlying its elaborations is one of extreme philosophical realism: it is assumed that the structure of reality corresponds so exactly to the way in which the mind works that there is a separate real entity corresponding to every distinction that it can make.

Taken to its most extreme form realism, it seems to these authors, would produce models unsuitable for use within science.

But despite the periodic popularity of extreme anti-realism, it is surely absurd to suppose that it is even in principle possible for a mind to force a structure on a literally unstructured world.

In recent decades, Thomas Kuhn, Richard Rorty, Hilary Putnam and others have moved away from the more extreme forms of realism, while, on the Continent, Jacques Derrida sounded a rather idealist note by maintaining that reality is nothing but a text that we write and rewrite.

Notwithstanding the controversial subject matter, this is an extraordinarily powerful novel that leads the stunned reader through extremes of both realism and surrealism on an exhausting journey through some of the darkest recesses of European history.