Realist Methodology and the Articulation of Modes of Production (ص 60)
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- Realist Methodology and the Articulation of Modes of Production (ص 60)
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and paradigms are not merely utilitarian conventions for
ordering empirical phenomena, but more or less adequate
reconstructions of real structures and causal mechanisms.
Without this materialist commitment to theory construction
and concept formation. the social production of models’) and
paradigms becomes nothing more than an architectonic
aesthetics. (93) Thus, for the realist, Iconic. and
representational forms are an important aspect of scientific
activity, but only inasmuch as these imagined forms
putatively refer to real or hypostatised real objects,
mechanisms or structures.
This position takes us well beyond the bounds of both
empiricism and positivism since they do not envisage such
epistemological or ontological possibilities. Empiricism and
positivism discuss neither structure nor mechanism still less
their theoretical hypostatisation, rather the ontological
currency of both empiricism and positivism is empirical
events and their constant conjunction. However, the realist
does not dismiss the events and constant conjunction of
events of empiricist ontology but rather attempts to locate
them in their place in the actual practice of scientific
activity. Thus, the realist looks at events and their
constant conjunction as a necessary starting point in the
methodological process of experimental investigation and
discovery. The point of departure for the realist is to
attempt to get behind the level of empirical experience and
constant conjunctions of events to the real structures and
mechanisms which cause them to occur.
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- Alex Pollock
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