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Realism

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

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As opposed to Nominalism, is the belief that general terms denote real things and are not mere names or answerable to the mere conception of them, and as opposed to idealism, is in philosophy the belief that we have an immediate cognition of things external to us, and that they are as they seem. In art and literature it is the tendency to conceive and represent things as they are, however unsightly and immoral they may be, without any respect to the beautiful, the true, or the good. In Ruskin's teaching mere realism is not art; according to him art is concerned with the rendering and portrayal of ideals.

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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Realism'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​r/realism.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
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