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Four views will be briefly considered; they present metaphysics as: (1) an inquiry into what exists, or what really exists; (2) the science of reality, as opposed to appearance; (3) the study of the world as a whole; (4) a theory of first principles.
Not surprisingly, then, Bosanquet argues that metaphysics—"the general science of reality"—cannot be distinguished from logic the science of knowledge any more than one can separate a result from the process which produces it.
Through their articulation of the ideal of scientia, of a complete science of reality, composed of propositions derived demonstratively from a priori first principles, these philosophers exert great influence on the Enlightenment.
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In time, Prus adopted the French Positivist critic Hippolyte Taine's concept of the arts, including literature, as a second means, alongside the sciences, of studying reality, and he devoted more attention to his sideline of short-story writer.
It is hard to challenge the hard sciences' basic picture of reality.
"History," he explained, "is the systematic science of that radical reality which is my life….There is no actio in distans.
Within the context of science "reality" would normally be taken to mean our experimental or observational data; but the statement that science (ontologies) should be based on experimental or observational data is a truism and, as such, has no explanatory power.
He said he felt that gestural abstract painting, with its self-evident brushwork, could create an experience of time and space that differed from that of reality, science and most other kinds of painting.
This reality changes continually throughout history, and these changes have especially occupied philosophers and historians of science, for a sense of reality in a culture is basic to any scientific pursuit by that culture, beginning with the earliest philosophical inquiries into the nature of the world.
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