“These writers interweave, in an ever-shifting pattern, a sharply etched realism in representing ordinary events and descriptive details together with fantastic and dreamlike elements.”
“There must be some realism about the situation and I urge both sides to get together to find a way through.”
“His outburst blaming the vandals on the estate for frightening his wife to death, was a jarring moment of realism.”
“Once again, if P has more than one realizer, then P is multiply realizable.”
“Scientific kinds are individuated by their causal powers, and the causal powers of each instance of some realized kind are identical to those of its realizer.”
“He then introduces a form of realizability based on general set recursive functions where a realizer for an existential statement provides a set of witnesses for the existential quantifier, rather than a single witness.”
realizability
The property or characteristic of being realizable.
“Critics of functionalism were quick to turn its proclaimed virtue of multiple realizability against it.”
“This correspondence between physical realizability and computability seems to require something like the quantum picture of reality to be true.”
“Pragmatic social science is concerned not merely with elaborating an ideal in convincing normative arguments, but also with its realizability and its feasibility.”
“He did not mention Friedman's strictures against testing by the realisticness of assumptions, though he did discuss his insistence on testing by predictive success.”
“Inclusion of the Columbia riverbed, of the locations of Portland's universities, as well as Portland's public transport system, might increase the realisticness of the model.”