Hi Derek,
you need that qualification! Because from where I stand the question 'What is the real?' generally reduces in analytic philosophy to 'What is real?' and there seems to be some degree of confidence that the latter question has, more or less, been answered. But the question "What does our approach to philosophy assume the real - the ultimate ground of truth - to be?" Is a different order of question, its Socratic in my opinion - because it implies an auto-critical dimension that is not implied by the question 'What is real?'


Phil