Critical Realism - A Study of the Nature and Conditions of Knowledge #244879

My thesis is, then, that idealism and realism have had essentially the same View of knowledge and that the large measure of sterility which has accompanied philosophical controversy is due to this constant assumption that knowledge always involves the presence of the existent known in the field of experience. Philosophy limited itself to a controversial study of the subject-object duality and did not lift its eyes to the triad consisting of subject, idea-object (in science analyzable into propositions), and physical existent. It is to this triad that Critical Realism calls attention. It is my persuasion that this more complex form of realism does justice to the truth contained on both Sides in the old antithesis. And it is this inclusive ness as much as anything else that convinces me that I am on the right track.