ABSTRACT
Up to this point, my task has been to demonstrate how the rhetorics critiqued in the previous chapters fall into theory/practice inconsistencies; more specifically I have shown how all these rhetorics have failed 1) to address how knowledge can be corrigible without being relative, 2) to explain how knowledge can contribute to emancipatory change beyond methodological individualism or some other form of static idealism; and 3) to coherently explain the possibility of human agency. Before I proceed to a discussion of critical realist rhetoric, I would like to return briefly to Bhaskar’s Transformational Model of Social Activity as preparation for laying part of the foundation of a critical realist rhetoric.
