{"id":653,"date":"2026-04-07T09:23:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T09:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/?p=653"},"modified":"2026-04-07T09:23:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T09:23:12","slug":"on-realism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/07\/on-realism\/","title":{"rendered":"On realism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a previous post we discussed how <em>realism <\/em>does not align in a <em>perfect <\/em>sense with Arabic <em>haqq\/haqqiyah<\/em>. Realizing that modern academia is utilizing the English language it may be honest to assess what realism <em>an sich<\/em> entails.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To provide a metaphysical background <em>realism <\/em>can be understood as the attitude of the <em>absolute <\/em>experience of a substance. At first glance this might be interpreted as skewing around the problem as one can argue that merely <em>realism <\/em>is substituted for <em>absolute existence<\/em>. This judgement has some merit. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However in <em>positivist<\/em> attitudes towards <em>knowledge<\/em> i.e. non-skeptical positions to the possibility of logic a reframing of a previous illuster (dark) <em>goad <\/em>under consideration is not without meaning. This is where the puzzle of interpreting <em>realism <\/em>arises once more since meaning <em>per se <\/em>also can be interpreted to actually &#8220;mean something&#8221; in positivist contexts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a previous post we discussed how realism does not align in a perfect sense with Arabic haqq\/haqqiyah. Realizing that modern academia is utilizing the English language it may be honest to assess what realism an sich entails. To provide a metaphysical background realism can be understood as the attitude of the absolute experience of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[92],"class_list":["post-653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-realism","tag-positivism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=653"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":675,"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653\/revisions\/675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}