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Veiled Reality and Structural Realism
Authors:Joseph A. Bracken S.J.
Abstract:Abstract

The noted philosopher of science, Bernard d'Espagnat, tries to mediate between objective reality and empirical reality via the notion of veiled reality: namely, while the laws proper to things in themselves are unknown, their existence and interrelated activity can be inferred from observation and analysis of human experience. The author claims that Whiteheadian creativity offers a better candidate for the notion of veiled reality because it is a transcendent activity, not a transcendent actuality. Likewise, a revision of the Whiteheadian category of society as a structured field of activity for its constituent actual entities indirectly confirms Henri Poincaré's notion of structural realism.
Keywords:Veiled reality  Creativity  Actual entities  Structured field of activity  Substance  Society  d'Espagnat  Poincaré  A. N. Whitehead
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