David Lewis' view on possible worlds is sometimes called modal realism.

Is such a process an example of what the academics call "magic realism"?

I don't know anybody who talks in that gutter language they call realism.

The result is a series of clear-eyed portraits in a style that might be called post-modernist realism.

He adopted a rather different view, which he called "internal realism".

The former position has been called philosophical realism, and the latter nominalism.

This strand of theory is sometimes called "modern realism".

It's a simple reality - the powerful political conjunction between pragmatism and idealism that can be called American democratic realism.

This idea, called direct realism, has again become popular in recent years with the rise of postmodernism.

It has an atmosphere of what you might call magical realism.