Meaning of real-worlder | Babel Free

Definitions

Synonym of realist, a practical person who lives in the real world as distinguished from those perceived to inhabit cloudcuckooland or similarly detached from reality in some way.

Examples

“Another trouble⟳ within this schematic diagram is that within each school there is a division between the "real worlders"--those who recognize the world is complicated--and the "gimmicksters"--those who want⟳ to depend⟳ on a once-and-for-all problem-solving gimmick.”

“The scholars who found the postmodernists most outrageous were those who thought they actually were discussing the “real world.” […] What the real-worlders missed was that the extreme relativists were engaged in games of a yet another sort⟳, language games, with double⟳ entendres and other clever word-play.”

“Our approach⟳ privileges the perspective of military practice. In the tutorial sessions, we put⟳ real-worlders in charge.”

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