ABSTRACT
The naturalistic objectivism is typically reductionist, in as much as it deliberately sets out to show that any 'indexical' elements of the content — all, that is, speaker-related aspects of the 'mode of presentation' — can be removed from the prepositional context without a loss of truth. If there is a 'real time', then it is only in the sense of an objective historical time, and the objective historical time is a socially constructed time. A physicist might speak of 'atomic clocks' and similar serial mechanisms for expressing temporal relations, but his use of temporal order concepts if closely examined, can be seen to be essentially parasitic upon the notion of historical time. By contrast, the socio-historical approach takes a much broader view of the truth-relevant content, and looks for the roots of objectivity in the social sphere.
