Thus, the world must be real. The subject of this inquiry is ontology. On the other hand, epistemology is the study of knowledge. It addresses the question of how we know what we know. If you dig beneath the surface of many scientific disputes, you will find problems of ontology.
Ontology is more than an assumption.
It is our understanding of the real world. In this study I attempt to show how such a revised ontology is in fact presupposed by the social activity of science. The basic principle of realist philosophy of science, viz. Yet the full working out of this principle implies a radical account of the nature of causal laws, viz. And it implies that a constant conjunction of events is no more a necessary than a sufficient condition for a causal law.