historical reality
collocation in Englishmeaningsofhistoricalandreality
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historical
adjective
uk/hɪˈstɒr.ɪ.kəl/us/hɪˈstɔːr.ɪ.kəl/
connected with studying or representing things from ...
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reality
noun
uk/riˈæl.ə.ti/us/riˈæl.ə.t̬i/
the state of things as they are, rather than as they are imagined ...
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(Definition ofhistoricalandrealityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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A new and heterogeneous image can then appear that approximateshistoricalrealitymore than the still-dominant narrowly scoped impressions of events.
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His methodology was based on a strict separation between general types of social psychological situations and their concrete embodiment inhistoricalreality.
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The way the landscape is rendered suggests, with or without a measured scale, the impression of geographical precision andhistoricalreality.
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After all, the validity of some concept formed in the historian's mind rests on its examination in the light ofhistoricalreality.
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This of course refers to their ideals, and is not proposed as a picture of much of thehistoricalrealityof the religions.
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Perhaps this conclusion of ambiguity accurately reflectshistoricalreality.
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In ourhistoricalrealitythe bolide opens the gates of opportunity, in my not-so-counterfactual world it is an ice-age.
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I believe that in the last resort critical reflection should be aimed at finding better theories and better methods of representinghistoricalreality.
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This will mean taking seriously the actual possibility, but not necessarily thehistoricalreality, of the pure state of nature.
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Cultures of intimacy are ritual incantations from ahistoricalrealitywhich is constantly threatening to change.
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It is an illusion to think that by looking hard at medieval icons one is able to have direct access tohistoricalreality.
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He is concerned with establishing the fools' position as a localhistoricalrealitybefore considering their cultural significance.
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Thehistoricalrealitywas more complicated.
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The scholar may be more inclined to criticise this author's predilection as a temptation to distorthistoricalreality, which, at times at least, was somewhat less exciting.
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The man-bap relationship does havehistoricalreality.
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The parent language is an abstraction with no particular claim tohistoricalreality, a myth, but a useful myth with a specific function, to express historical relationships.
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Working with it, the clear separation of thehistoricalrealityof experimental psychology in which instruments actually appear and the historical representation of these instruments is undone.
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