Ontology: Critical realism. Reality is assumed to
exist but to be only imperfectly apprehendable because
of basically flawed human intellectual mechanisms
and the fundamentally intractable nature of
phenomena. The ontology is labeled as critical realism
(Cook & Campbell, 1979) because of the posture
of proponents that claims about reality must be
subjected to the widest possible critical examination
to facilitate apprehending reality as closely as possible
(but never perfectly).