ABSTRACT
The complexity of the real manifests itself at the descriptive level with respect to the constitution of individuals and at the functional level with respect to their comportment. And this complexity is not static but an account of its self-potentiation is ever increasing. The objection is thus transcended when one recalls the law of natural complexity’s contention that there is in principle no theoretical limit to the lines of consideration available to provide descriptive perspectives upon a thing—that the range of descriptive spectra can always, in principle, be extended. The world’s descriptive complexity is literally limitless: the descriptive truths that can be articulated about reality never manage to exhaust the range of actual fact. The fact that reality has a cognitive depth that is, in effect, unfathomable has significant implications for realism, the philosophical doctrine that in the development of knowledge the mind at best models reality rather than creates it.
