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uided by practical experience, a specific substance exhibiting an ability to radically change its characteristics based on conditions is a useful concept to embrace. Extrapolating out, this raises the notion that we can never fully understand anything as some possible conditions are beyond human experience. A purely empirical theory trades only in empirical qualities.
“Realism is not a matter of any fidelity to an empirical reality, but of the discursive conventions by which and for which a sense of reality is constructed.” - John Fiske

