this “common sense” view of the world as self-evident. We assume that the world is objectively real, that it displays an order inherent to itself and independent of human activity. Most of us assume that the human mind is capable of more or less accurately mirroring this external, nonhuman reality; most of us also assume that language, as a product of the human mind, provides an adequate means of declaring to ourselves and to others what the world is like. In making these objectivist assumptions,
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