unrealism


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Synonyms for unrealism

a representation having no reference to concrete objects or specific examples

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Though the last two dimensions (Ease of Being Engaged Despite Adverse Surroundings; Ease of Accepting Unrealism) certainly do not represent an exhaustive list of potentially disruptive influences on narrative engagement, they should be able to discriminate between more and less skilled "engagers."
They note the underlying grossly unrealistic modeling strategy (Solow, 2000) as well as the unrealism of the notion of Marshallian externalities (Pack, 1994).
In an inversion of Finnegan's claim about the naturalistic enthymeme, the unnaturalistic enthymeme cues us to how, regardless of what else an analogico-digital photograph communicates, at minimum its (digitally post-processed) figurative dimensions are continually making an argument about its own unrealism. To make this case, we aim to construct a grammar of these newly visible editing practices by drawing on the ancient concept of the quadripartita ratio.
semilunar unrealism 1) emotional response to a perfect half moon; 2) A literal half a moon is unrealistic.
Even accepting the unrealism of a probabilistic theory, however, a qualification is necessary that this diagram serves mainly as an impetus to thinking about these matters rather than as a source of definitive statements thereon.
The unrealism of this preferences type, however, does not mean individuals do not require a premium to take part in a transaction they view to be immoral.
Must we now have a Gynokult to ensure Feminist Unrealism?
(31) Kirby's avatar was "fanciful" and appeared "in outer space in the 25th Century." (32) Again, unrealism served as a proxy for transformation.
This unrealism jars us momentarily, interfering with our suspension of disbelief.
Topics include the green politics of Alasdair MacIntyre and Vaclav Havel, the politics of global warming, mindfulness as a new commons, territorial claims in a world of limits, the political unrealism of making meta-ethical demands for non-anthropocentrism in environmental ethics, and critique of the biocentric egalitarianism of deep ecology.
According to Priest, Coase was initially "appreciated by [the] cognoscenti, but the Theorem could be (and was) dismissed by the large majority because of the unrealism of the transaction cost assumption." Guido and Richard Posner, however, "forced the legal community to give attention to the economic approach." (155) I give the last word on the provenance of law and economics to Dean Ron Harris of Tel Aviv University Law School:
Although Mazama has articulated a compelling criticism of the subject-matter approach to disciplinary definitions, I detect a degree of unrealism in her questioning of the imperative of what she labels as conformity to the prevailing standards and structures of the US higher educational system.
This introduces some unrealism, as it allows a wind turbine to be modeled as having different rotation speeds and different [C.sub.f] at various heights.
For his part, Shesol demonstrates the unrealism of internalism about important events.
They defend minimalism from any possible accusation of psychological unrealism and try to show how, in fact, contextualism overcomes its own criticism about these intuitions.