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The mathematician always proceeds from thought to being or things. Consequently, critical idealism was born the day Descartes decided that the mathematical method must henceforth be the method for metaphysics.

Étienne Gilson

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Étienne Gilson (13 June 1884–19 September 1978) was a French philosopher and historian of philosophy.

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Alternative Names: Étienne Henry Gilson

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Having expelled quality from the field of extension, [idealists] do not know how to account for it when it reappears in thought.

As used today, the word realism means in the first place the opposite to idealism when it claims that it is possible to pass from the subject to the object.

I maintain, therefore, that just as there is in Cartesianism a methodical idealism, the kind that starts with nosse [knowing], there can be a methodical realism, the kind that starts with esse [being].

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