ABSTRACT
In challenging the assumption that the social and the cognitive comprise distinct ontological realms the present chapter considers the mental and the social as being fundamentally interrelated in the outset. In so doing, I provide an account on how a phenomenologically informed take on perception in the context of human socio-practical engagements is useful for informing a perspective on social organizing without assuming the separability of different ontologies. I am particularly interested in uncovering the connection between basic perception in humans and how such engagements interrelate with the enlanguaged dimension of socio-material practices. My take entails a combining of Heidegger’s phenomenological account on order and orderliness with Wittgenstein’s writings on ostensive language games.
