https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/awe-and-shock-with-critical-realism-is-it-compatible-with-p2p/2006/08/22 Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Wed, 20 Sep 2006 05:35:22 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.15 https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/awe-and-shock-with-critical-realism-is-it-compatible-with-p2p/2006/08/22/comment-page-1#comment-3461 Wed, 20 Sep 2006 05:35:22 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=388#comment-3461 My experience with critical realists is that they are ontological dogmatists. I can relate to your experience of initial excitement and eventual concern and disappointment. A famous CR recently told me that my methodological decisions made certain ontological presuppositions which were inconsistent with my personal ontological convictions. My response: so? I think that ontology should be instrumental. Why not?! We have little way of knowing which positions are right and wrong anyway…

]]> https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/awe-and-shock-with-critical-realism-is-it-compatible-with-p2p/2006/08/22/comment-page-1#comment-2189 Tue, 22 Aug 2006 23:51:35 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=388#comment-2189 That seems a shame. I suppose people need to refine what they are working on – any new process works in isolation – before being combined with other processes/products?

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