Realism vs Subjectivism - What's the difference?
As nouns the difference between realism and subjectivism is that realism is a concern for fact or reality and rejection of the impractical and visionary while subjectivism is (metaphysics) the doctrine that reality is created or shaped by the mind.
realism
Noun
A concern for fact or reality and rejection of the impractical and visionary
An artistic representation of reality as it is
(sciences) The viewpoint that an external reality exists independent of observation
(philosophy) A doctrine that universals are real—they exist and are distinct from the particulars that instantiate them
Antonyms
* (doctrine concerning universals) nominalism
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subjectivism
Noun
(metaphysics) The doctrine that reality is created or shaped by the mind.
(epistemology) The doctrine that knowledge is based in feelings or intuition
(ethics) The doctrine that values and moral principles come from attitudes, convention, whim, or preference.
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