Critical Realism e-bog

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. 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.