idealism
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Koch believes researchers may need to reconsider philosophical ideas such as idealism and panpsychism while continuing to apply modern scientific methods.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 30, 2026
When it steps outside its own borders, the country’s idealism can often augment its realism.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
But his highly anticipated return to the sci-fi summer blockbuster, the brilliant and beguiling “Disclosure Day,” is Spielberg’s most shameless appeal toward idealism yet.
From Salon ● Jun. 13, 2026
Or would we demand that she compromise her principles because it’s pragmatic to let go of the idealism of youth?
From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2026
But as I lay there in my bed that night with my brother asleep beside me, I couldn’t seem to muster up any sort of idealism.
From "Where Things Come Back" by John Corey Whaley
Vocabulary lists containing idealism
Some Political and Philosophical -isms
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"The Lady, or the Tiger?" by Frank R. Stockton
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Cesar Chavez's Commonwealth Club Address (1984)
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