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noun
- (uncountable) Objects from real life or from the real world, as opposed to theoretical contstructs or fabricated examples; especially, such objects used as instructional or classroom aids.
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| realist |
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noun
- One who believes in literal truth.
- A follower of the realism movement.
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| realistic |
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adjective
- Expressed or represented as being accurate.
- A realistic appraisal of the situation.
- Relating to the representation of objects, actions or conditions as they actually are or were.
- A realistic novel about the Victorian poor.
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noun
- A thought or a consideration offered in support of a determination or an opinion; a just ground for a conclusion or an action; that which is offered or accepted as an explanation; the efficient cause of an occurrence or a phenomenon; a motive for an action or a determination; proof, more or less decisive, for an opinion or a conclusion; principle; efficient cause; final cause; ground of argument.
- He had no to do that.
- The mind, the reasoning processes of the mind.
- Mankind should develop above all other virtues.
- Due exercise of the reasoning faculty; accordance with, or that which is accordant with and ratified by, the mind rightly exercised; right intellectual judgment; clear and fair deductions from true principles; that which is dictated or supported by the common sense of mankind; right conduct; right; propriety; justice.
- I was promised, on a time, To have for my rhyme. "Spenser
- (context, mathematics, obsolete) ratio; proportion.
verb
- (intransitive) To exercise the rational faculty; to deduce inferences from premises; to perform the process of deduction or of induction; to ratiocinate; to reach conclusions by a systematic comparison of facts.
- (intransitive) Hence: To carry on a process of deduction or of induction, in order to convince or to confute; to formulate and set forth propositions and the inferences from them; to argue.
- (intransitive) To converse; to compare opinions.
- (transitive) To arrange and present the reasons for or against; to examine or discuss by arguments; to debate or discuss.
- I reasoned the matter with my friend.
- (transitive, rare) To support with reasons, as a request.
- (transitive) To persuade by reasoning or argument.
- to one into a belief; to one out of his plan
- (transitive) To overcome or conquer by adducing reasons; " with down.
- to down a passion
- (transitive) To find by logical process; to explain or justify by reason or argument; " usually with out.
- to out the causes of the librations of the moon'''
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| referent |
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noun
- (linguistics) The specific entity in the world that a word or phrase identifies or denotes.
- That which is referenced.
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| relativism |
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noun
- (philosophy) A theory, especially in ethics or aesthetics, that conceptions of truth and moral values are not absolute but are relative to the persons or groups holding them.
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| reminiscence |
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noun
- An act of remember, remembering long-past experiences.
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| republic |
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noun (wikipedia, Republics of Russia)
- A state where sovereignty rests with the people or their representatives, rather than with a monarch or emperor; a country with no monarchy.
- The U.S.A. is a republic; Great Britain is technically a monarchy.
- One of the subdivisions constituting Russia. See oblast.
- The Republic of Udmurtia is west of the Permian Oblast.
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