natural realism

Related to natural realism: magical realism

natural realism

naive realism.
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For this reason, Putnam has abandoned the internalist picture and has adopted instead the Jamesian doctrine of natural realism; a doctrine which sees us "as open to the world, as interacting with the world in ways that permit aspects of it to reveal themselves to us." (Putnam 2012: 27)
Style of Realism hasn't been created suddenly; rather its growth occurred in the number of stages.It is like all innovative schools of literature that arose over a relatively long time, from natural realism of "Zola" up to pecuniary realism of "Chekhov" and socialistic realism of Gorky.
The natural realism went ahead: the lily substituted the well as a link to purity; Murillo brought the angel closer to Mary, so that the password is captured correctly; caring Rembrandt even placed Mary under the angel's wing for safety ...
The discussions of realism focus on Putnam's evolving critique of the correspondence theory, his (related) attempts at a naturalistic account of truth (what now he calls "natural realism"), and the debate about how deflationary an account of truth can be.
Debut of salsa star Negron is steeped in natural realism. Justiniano is a bit on the blank side trying to express her character's instincts for being good in a jungle like this one, while Ignacio is a terminal ham, his portly Axel apparently obsessed with stripping in public.

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