ABSTRACT
The introductory remarks framed my anthropocentric perspective: our
knowledge of the world is one with our bond to things, and this bond is
itself a worldmaking. This worldmaking is such that things exist indepen-
dently of our conceptions and linguistic expressions about them, but not
independently of their relation to the fact of our organic conscious exis-
tence. Thus, the world arises primarily from matter’s relation to our fleshy
organism and secondarily from matter’s relation to our theories and
instruments.
