Epistemological

The epistemological position of Ritschl, in our author's exposition of it, is little more than idealistic rationalism.

In the period from Spinoza to the end of the 19th century, the reading of design into nature received such devastating attacks from naturalists to non-naturalists alike that there developed an epistemological neurosis which Von Baer aptly termed “teleophobia.”

My conclusion dovetails with Fasold's conclusion, which is based on a quite different, more epistemological kind of argument.

The reality which thus emerges is the outcome of the epistemological process in which the mind conceptually structures a given content.