ABSTRACT
Surely since the Enlightenment, if not before, the study of mind has centered principally upon how man achieves a “true” knowledge of the world. Emphasis in this pursuit has varied, of course: empiricists have concentrated upon the mind's interplay with an external world of nature, hoping to find the key in the association of sensations and ideas, while rationalists have looked inward to the powers of mind itself for the principles of right reason. The objective, in either case, has been to discover how we achieve “reality,” that is to say, how we get a reliable “fix” on the world, a world that is, as it were, assumed to be immutable and, as it were, “there to be observed.”
