Economic Epistemology: An Attempt to Define Economic Realism and Reality

Ren Descartes, the father of modern philosophy and rationalism, once asked about everything, "all that is to exist do exist and existence itself--the nature of reality". He has contributed to the possibility that reason is the only reliable method of attaining knowledge. Blatantly, the senses couldn't be trusted, but logic and reasoning could. Nevertheless, he acknowledged that experimentation was necessary to verify and validate theories.