Hence, if attention to purposes is indispensable to describe a system as democratic, the axiological reference proves inherent in every definition of democracy: "It ensues that the relation between ideal and real (and sometimes the tension) is immanent in any theory or model of democracy, whether of a normative-ideal or descriptive-realistic type" (Mura 1997: 403).3.
Albert's distinction thus allowed him to harmonize Plato's realism in which universals existed as separate forms with Aristotle's more nominalistic theory of immanent forms.
Benjamin's Romantic theory of immanent criticism insists that the work must contain its own inner criterion, such that the critic proceeds from the work itself and not from the life of the author (SW 1, 321).
It makes sense to seek an expanded form of understanding that includes the mental but that is still scientific — i.e. still a theory of the immanent order of nature.
Here Rawls suggests that his theory is an immanent working out of ideas already "embedded in our public life" (1980, 307).
While we will read theorists from media studies, sound studies, and linguistic anthropology, our task will include a more immanent invention of Latin American media theory from primary materials (novels, tape art, films, etc) in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, and Mexico.
Thus, trope theory is a bit like immanent realism, except that tropes are particulars.
Pushing: The main argument for immanence is that only immanent entities can interact.
Though Brentano and the early Marty had allowed for irrealia strictly as objects immanent to consciousness, Brentano came to reject this theory in favor of saying that the non-real consists only of linguistic fictions.
These findings are discussed in relation to M. J. Lerner's (1980) just-world theory and J. Piaget's (1932/1965) immanent-justice research and in relation to the development of intergroup attitudes.
