"As God's truth is what God comes to know as he creates and assembles it, so human truth is what man comes to know as he builds it shaping it by his actions. Therefore science (scientia) is the knowledge (cognitio) of origins, of the ways and the manner how things are made".
Ernst Von Glasersfeld used this quote by Giambattista Vico in attempt to solidify the stance of his Radical Constructivism theory of knowledge but to me he actually made a case for everyone in oppostion to his train of thought and to the metaphysical realist in particular. Metaphysics realism talks about a true reality; one whose existence is independent of our knowledge contadictly to the Radical Construtivist like von Glasersfeld who argues that the truth of the world is only what we know of it as a result of our epxeriences. The quote by Giambattista Vico talks about God's truth; a truth He comes to have as a result of him creating (experiencing) the world. I defnitely agree with this train of thought but not probably nor for what Vico and Glasersfeld might have intended. God created the whole world as we know it and if von Glasersfeld agrees with it; by quoting Vico that there's a world bigger than what we know of it. So why then would he disregard that aspect and reject the metaphysical realist's claim of a " true ontological rality"? Why would he claim that human truth is only as a result of our experiees when we all know that there's a bigger world out there?
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I think von Glasersfeld finds the guote from Vico poetic, not literally true.
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