Radical Constructivism

Radical Constructivism is the idea that knowledge is not passively received but actively built up by the cognizing subject and that the function of cognition is adaptive and serves the organization of the experiential world, not the discovery of ontological reality. Von Glasersfled argues that our knowledge cannot be interpreted as a picture or representation of that real world, but only as a key that unlocks possible paths for us. He claims, that a metaphysical realist is someone who insists that we may call something true only if it corresponds to an independent, objective reality. Radical Constructivism is the theory of knowledge in which knowledge does not reflect an objective ontological reality, but rather an ordering and organization of a world constituted by our experience.