Reality can be grasped at levels of different depths. It is… - Étienne Gilson

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Reality can be grasped at levels of different depths. It is immediately given to us in a kind of block form, which is simply the "apprehended reality".

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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The realist method starts with the whole in order to distinguish the parts.

Having left us with thought (not a soul), and extension (not a body), [Descartes] does not know how to account for the union of soul and body.

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.

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