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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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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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Every given reality implies the thought which apprehends it. Therefore being is the condition of knowing; knowing is not the condition of being.

We can only choose between two kinds of life, the active and the contemplative.

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.

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