Critical realism on the one hand responds to the error of positivism by its self-critical faculty, and on the other hand, to the errors of postmodern pluralism and indeterminacy of meaning by its insistence on the otherness of the data. Ben Meyer rightly stresses that “objectivity is not achieved by the flight from subjectivity nor by any and every cultivation of subjectivity, but by an intense and persevering effort to exercise subjectivity attentively, intelligently, reasonably, and responsibly” (1994:
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