“Reality can be grasped at levels of different depths. It is immediately given to us in a kind of block form, which is simply the "apprehended reality."”Étienne Gilson Methodical Realism
“Every given reality implies the thought which apprehends it. Therefore being is the condition of knowing; knowing is not the condition of being.”Étienne Gilson Methodical Realism
“If there is a single initial error at the root of all the difficulties philosophy is involved in, it can only be the one Descartes committed when he decreed, a priori, that the method of one of the sciences of reality was valid for the whole of reality.</i”Étienne Gilson Methodical Realism
“Up to Descartes' time, and particularly during the Middle Ages, it had always been agreed that philosophy consisted in a transposition of reality into conceptual terms”Étienne Gilson Methodical Realism