[MD] Neopragmatism isn't pragmatic.

[gav]

really interesting following this thread. really
getting to the core of the impasse.

 two realities seem two be opposed here but why can't
they co-exist? 

there is immediate experience - primary reality; then
there is the intellectual world - another reality,
created by language, which we overlay on primary
reality (as an expediency), so regularly that we can
forget about primary reality altogether. 

This is Baudrillard's 'perfect crime';  it is the
'spectacle' of the sitationists, and it is the reason
why julian jaynes likened 'consciousness' (meaning
that recently evolved capacity for the manipulation of
representational symbols in an abstract space) to
someone using a  flashlight in a very dark room: 

wherever the flashlight searches it sees light. it
can't see the dark. the intellect sees the reflected
'light' itself shines as proof that reality is only
'light', intellectual only. and since the intellect is
created by language, 'reality' is created by language.

language creates intellectual reality: the realm of
analogues; an abstract plane. but the abstract has to
be abstracted from something...and that something is
pre-intellectual primary reality. 

we can't find primary reality with the intellect but
it is a necessary precondition for the intellect's
existence; and i am usually pretty sure the intellect
exists.





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