ABSTRACT
The ‘something social’ must not be construed in terms of an interactionism which presuppose s the very forms of understanding that the people are trying to explain through a reference to the ‘something social’. One can bring out the issues by means of an argument-schema expressed in terms of a number of logical connections or chains of presupposition involving knowledge. Moreover, the presuppositions or implications in question are all meant to be logical or conceptual in nature and do not entail a similar temporal ordering. There is also the fact that the concept of knowledge is in a certain sense a normative concept – at any rate in the sense that, as the author have tried to point out, it presupposes an appreciation of the force of a norm. The difficulties on which the author have concentrated do not, however, lie there, but in the very implications of the concept of knowledge itself.
