Published: 2018-09-241

On ontic truth, radical realism, radical metaphysics, and the real sources of philosophical crisis

Grażyna Żurkowska
Humanities and Natural Sciences
Section: Discussions and polemics
https://doi.org/10.31648/hip.999

Abstract

The main confusion concerning the truth has two sources. The issue is usually considered from two perspectives: [1] cognitive (around which have been built all epistemologies) and [2] ontological, theorized reality (around which have been built all ontologies). The problem is that both are situated on the same articulated level. Neither takes into consideration the ontic dimension of reality, without which we can not talk about cognition, ontology of truth. Unfortunately, that directly inaccessible dimension has been dislodged from philosophy and is the main source of philosophical crisis. Ontic reality is Precognitive Element (Precognitive Vortex). Truth has two dimensions: ontic and onto-epistemological. The first can be reconstruct only indirectly throught practice which I call radical metaphysics. The second is developed according to actually accepted articulated practice.  While the opposite of onto-epistemological truth is falsity, the opposite of ontic truth is not falsity but the truth (itself). In accordance with the above, we have two sorts of realism: radical realism of ontic reality accessible only metaphysically and many odels of realism created on the onto-epistemological level. The first we can reconstruct only indirectly, by the practice called here radical metaphysics, the second one is created according to actually accepted norms of articulated practiced. Truth has a double nature: ontic (it has ontic weight) and lightness of energy, a power of transgressing all actual borders. In order to change the world around us, philosophy has to constantly free that energy out of the actual theories. Accordingly, I exchange traditional realism by transcending realism (transcending – not transcendental), transgressing existing borders of our points of view and actual cognitive possibilities.

Keywords:

The Real (ontic dimension of reality, ontic energy, Precognitive Element), radical realism and radical metaphysics, ntic truth versus onto-epistemological truth, theoretised reality, dogmas of empiricism, antinomy of truth-false and its dilemmas, adical truth and radical metaphysics, onto-epistemic curve and its flattening

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Żurkowska, G. (2018). On ontic truth, radical realism, radical metaphysics, and the real sources of philosophical crisis. Humanities and Natural Sciences, (17), 365–384. https://doi.org/10.31648/hip.999

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