Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 00:23:07 +0100
From: Jan Straathof <janstr-AT-chan.nl>
Subject: Re: BHA: Fill in the blank?


Tobin asked:
>I'm looking for a cite, and for some reason drawing a blank.  Where is it RB
>says "Realism is inexorable"?  Thanks for the help.

RR (ch 8 par.2) "De-divinizing Ontology and the Inexorability of Realism"
PIF (ch 2) "Pragmatism, Epistemology and the Inexorability of Realism".

Bhaskar's 'Inexorability'-argument is, as you know, already deployed in
his early writings (RTS) where he is criticizing the scientific ontology
of Empirical Realism and Transcendental Idealism for their implicite
ontologies (i.e. their lack of elaboration of an ID), but in the above
mentioned pieces our beloved Rorty is 'pragmatically' slaughtered.

jan




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