the “background” of our knowledge (Wissen).48 This “understanding” is more on the order of know-how than propositional knowledge, more on the order of the imagination than intellect.49 To describe this in terms of the imagination (an “imaginary”) is meant to signal that our most basic way of intending and constituting the world is visceral and tactile—it runs off the fuel of “images” provided by the senses. So when Taylor emphasizes the fundamental and necessary function of the “social imaginary”