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<!g>John Polkinghorne, One World: The Interaction of Science and Theology
(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986), 22-24; John C.
Polkinghorne, "<!g>The Quantum World," in Physics, Philosophy, and
Theology: A Common Quest for Understanding, ed. <!g>Robert J. Russell, William
R. Stoeger, S.J. and <!g>George V. Coyne, S.J. (Vatican City State: Vatican
Observatory Publications, 1988), 43; Polkinghorne, The <!g>faith of a physicist,
25, 156. Note that Polkinghorne is
apparently restricting the term <!g>epistemology to the phenomena being observed
and recorded (e.g., data and experience) whereas epistemology normally
includes, and is even primarily focused on, the existing theories which account
for phenomena (e.g., <!g>deterministic chaos, <!g>quantum physics, Freudian
psychology). Thus to a critical realist
the phrase "epistemology models <!g>ontology" would seem more likely to mean that
the theories in science, perhaps even their specific concepts and terms, refer
to reality regardless of what the phenomena might suggest.
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