From: "Tobin Nellhaus" <nellhaus-AT-gis.net>
Subject: Re: BHA: re: cr and social science
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 18:29:08 -0500


A minor point....4

Mervyn wrote:

> 3. Further (and as a consequence?), the possibility of a third meaning
> of 'critical' hasn't been canvassed, and I think it is the main one.
> Viz., 'critical' as in 'critical realism', 'DCR' and 'TDCR'. This, as I
> understand it, is of Kantian provenance, and must surely be the main
> sense of 'critical' for critical realists.

"Provenance" overstates the case, I think -- other people had merged
"transcendental realism" and "critical naturalism" into "critical realism,"
which gained acceptance.  Bhaskar then decided to go with the flow and
accept the "mongrel" as his own, and provided some Kantian rationalizations.
(See RR 190.)

T.

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