Dissolution of the Realism/Antirealism Problem

Abstract

This paper investigates the way to dissolve the adversary either/or position represented by realism and antirealism by suggesting the complementarity approach which was so successfully introduced by Niels Bohr in his revolutionary way of thinking applied to modern physics. Bohr himself hoped that one day the complementarity principle would become the backbone of everyone’s education and would be applied in the entire spectrum of our society. However, Bohr’s approach is regarded as revolutionary only in the western philosophico-scientific tradition. Outside of it there are similar philosophical, moral, and spiritual perspectives to be found in Taoism, Buddhism, Upanishads, and Jainism whose followers regard complementarity of Bohr as more-or-less commonplace.