From East to West: Odyssey of a Soul (Critical Realism: Interventions)

The foremost claims of the transcendental realism essayed in A Realist Theory of Science are (1) to have established the irreducibility of ontology or the theory of being to epistemology or the theory of knowledge and a fortiori (and against the epistemic fallacy) that of being to knowledge, of being to our (i.e. human) knowledge of being; and (2) to have demonstrated some propositions in it, that is, to have given the re-vindicated subject of ontology a certain content or shape.