ABSTRACT
Of all Enlightenment based philosophies, critical realism captures – but only within the bounds of its own quite definable and definite epistemic blinkers – the simple truth, commonplace to Vedic (and other pre-modernist traditions) philosophy of seven thousand years ago (it is thus that modern Europe reinvents, under the guise of discovery, the truths of a strictly non-modernist provenance) that reality is differentiated, stratified and changing. In itself this would be trivial, were it not the fact that Enlightenment philosophies, en generale, were largely unaware, given their generally positivist stance, of the implications of this basic ontic truth for the practice of their own various sub-disciplines in the relevant arenas of inquiry.1
