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  2. Philosophical realism - Wikipedia

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    Philosophical realism—usually not treated as a position of its own but as a stance towards other subject matters— is the view that a certain kind of thing (ranging widely from abstract objects like numbers to moral statements to the physical world itself) has mind-independent existence, i.e. that it exists even in the absence of any mind perceiving it or that its existence is not just a ...

  3. Naïve realism - Wikipedia

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    Naïve realism argues we perceive the world directly. In philosophy of perception and epistemology, naïve realism (also known as direct realism or perceptual realism) is the idea that the senses provide us with direct awareness of objects as they really are. [1] When referred to as direct realism, naïve realism is often contrasted with ...

  4. Direct and indirect realism - Wikipedia

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    Direct realism, also known as naïve realism, argues we perceive the world directly. In the philosophy of perception and philosophy of mind, direct or naïve realism, as opposed to indirect or representational realism, are differing models that describe the nature of conscious experiences; [1] [2] out of the metaphysical question of whether the world we see around us is the real world itself ...

  5. Realism - Wikipedia

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    Legal realism, the view that jurisprudence should emulate the methods of natural science, i.e., rely on empirical evidence Realism (international relations) , the view that world politics is driven by competitive self-interest

  6. Theory of forms - Wikipedia

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    In philosophy and specifically metaphysics, the theory of Forms, theory of Ideas, [1] [2] [3] Platonic idealism, or Platonic realism is a theory widely credited to the Classical Greek philosopher Plato. The theory suggests that the physical world is not as real or true as "Forms".

  7. Actualism - Wikipedia

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    In analytic philosophy, actualism is the view that everything there is (i.e., everything that has being, in the broadest sense) is actual. [1] [2] Another phrasing of the thesis is that the domain of unrestricted quantification ranges over all and only actual existents.

  8. Moral realism - Wikipedia

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    Moral realism (also ethical realism) is the position that ethical sentences express propositions that refer to objective features of the world (that is, features independent of subjective opinion), some of which may be true to the extent that they report those features accurately.

  9. Idealism - Wikipedia

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    Idealism in philosophy, also known as philosophical idealism or metaphysical idealism, is the set of metaphysical perspectives asserting that, most fundamentally, reality is equivalent to mind, spirit, or consciousness; that reality is entirely a mental construct; or that ideas are the highest type of reality or have the greatest claim to being considered "real".