单词 | non-realist |
释义 | non-realistn.adj. A. n. A person who is not a realist, esp. someone who is not an advocate of a realist philosophy; a nominalist or idealist. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > scholasticism > [noun] > nominalism > adherent of nominal1519 nominalist1622 terminist1652 non-realist1909 1909 Mind 18 380 This attitude is very depressing to non-realists. Idealists at any rate have always felt it to be so. 1957 Jrnl. Hist. Ideas 15 259 This attachment..is consistent with his uncommon devotion to the past, on account of which he has often been called an escapist and non-realist. 1989 Brit. Jrnl. Philos. Sci. 534 Non-realists who either denied there was a physical world or who reduced it to sensations, ideas, or ‘theoretical entities’. B. adj. Of, relating to, or characteristic of non-realists, esp. nominalist or idealist. ΚΠ 1929 J. Tomlinson & A. Tomlinson tr. J. T. Piaget Child's Conception of World iv. 159 To a non-realist mind the meaning of the proposition is as follows: the shadow is made by the shade thrown by the hand just as night is due to the shade thrown by the earth, [etc.]. 1941 Slavonic Year-bk. (Amer. Ser.) 1 60 Like most non-realist currents in Russia, futurism owed its inception to a foreign source. 1964 R. H. Robins Gen. Linguistics 78 Firth took up a strongly non-realist ‘hocus-pocus’ line. 1998 Church Times 24 Dec. 14/4 He wants to demonstrate the sheer futility of non-realist and anti-theistic discourse because it sacrifices truth on the twin altars of naturalism and relativism. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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