Ideas are so much flat psychological surface unless some mirrored matter gives them cognitive lustre. This is why as a pragmatist ...I have so carefully posited 'reality' ab initio, and why throughout my whole discussion, I remain an epistemologist realist.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There are various forms taken by the myth of the given ... but they all have in common the idea that the awareness of certain sort...s--and by 'sorts' I have in mind, in the first instance, determinate sense repeatables--is a primordial, non-problematic feature of 'immediate experience.'LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »