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perception, infer ence, and understanding in visual argumentation (and beyond)
because they are quite ambivalent, meaning different things to different
people and in different situations) is, of course, reality. Well, it seems to be.
And since there is really no reality as such—per se or an Sich—we can talk
about (but only reality as it is ‘for us’), we should put at least this one be-
tween quotation marks.
What I understand as ‘reality’ here is undefined, undiscerned and in-
distinct ‘reality’, things (material or immaterial) that are ‘out there’, that
may be ‘out there’, that allow us to be, to do things, to think and act, but are
not, or not yet, part of our ‘social “reality”’ (or ‘subjective “reality”’; but sub-
jective always depends on the social, even if this dependence seems mini-
mal), that is, we have not given them any form of (intentional) conceptual-
ization, and are not conscious to us as possible signs (i.e., something we can
manipulate mentally and/or verbally).
That is the reason the space above is blank, empty (white), even with-
out a frame. It could have also been full (black), symbolizing everything or
nothing, a step before the first basic/primitive conceptualization.
Step 2
‘Reality’
Social ‘reality’
Second step narrows the perspective (in the direction of foreground-
ing), imposing a kind of a frame on the previously (still) undefined and
undiscerned ‘reality’, thus forming our social ‘reality’. This social ‘reality’
frame is a fuzzy frame, a frame that changes all the time, a frame that is
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because they are quite ambivalent, meaning different things to different
people and in different situations) is, of course, reality. Well, it seems to be.
And since there is really no reality as such—per se or an Sich—we can talk
about (but only reality as it is ‘for us’), we should put at least this one be-
tween quotation marks.
What I understand as ‘reality’ here is undefined, undiscerned and in-
distinct ‘reality’, things (material or immaterial) that are ‘out there’, that
may be ‘out there’, that allow us to be, to do things, to think and act, but are
not, or not yet, part of our ‘social “reality”’ (or ‘subjective “reality”’; but sub-
jective always depends on the social, even if this dependence seems mini-
mal), that is, we have not given them any form of (intentional) conceptual-
ization, and are not conscious to us as possible signs (i.e., something we can
manipulate mentally and/or verbally).
That is the reason the space above is blank, empty (white), even with-
out a frame. It could have also been full (black), symbolizing everything or
nothing, a step before the first basic/primitive conceptualization.
Step 2
‘Reality’
Social ‘reality’
Second step narrows the perspective (in the direction of foreground-
ing), imposing a kind of a frame on the previously (still) undefined and
undiscerned ‘reality’, thus forming our social ‘reality’. This social ‘reality’
frame is a fuzzy frame, a frame that changes all the time, a frame that is
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