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four critical essays on argumentation
being (enchronically) constructed and re-constructed all the time, thus be-
coming wider (expanding) at some point in time, comprising more ele-
ments, while at some other point in time it may become narrower (shrink-
ing), comprising less elements.
And the term ‘social’ in this case/usage, embraces physical, intellectu-
al, emotional, cultural, economic, demographic ... everything we (can) see,
notice, and are aware of (but do not necessarily understand or conceptual-
ize it yet!) at our individual hermeneutical horizon (as part of our neces-
sary social perspective). Even nature is part of this framed social ‘reality’,
in the sense and in the degree it enters our social experience. If it doesn’t (a
very rare experience), it is still part of our social ‘reality’ (by being, more or
less, absent from it). And as such, social ‘reality’ is still pretty undifferenti-
ated and unconceptualized.
Step 3
‘Reality’
Social ‘reality’
Framed ‘reality’
With framed ‘reality’ (in the sense of Goffman as well as Fillmore and
Lakoff), we are narrowing the perspective even more, actually much more.
Framed ‘reality’ isolates and concentrates on specific aspects, fragments,
usually situations from the largely undefined social ‘reality’, in order to
achieve (more) certainty, definiteness, in order to disambiguate and de-bias
what may (still) be undefined and uncertain in the social ‘reality’ at large,
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being (enchronically) constructed and re-constructed all the time, thus be-
coming wider (expanding) at some point in time, comprising more ele-
ments, while at some other point in time it may become narrower (shrink-
ing), comprising less elements.
And the term ‘social’ in this case/usage, embraces physical, intellectu-
al, emotional, cultural, economic, demographic ... everything we (can) see,
notice, and are aware of (but do not necessarily understand or conceptual-
ize it yet!) at our individual hermeneutical horizon (as part of our neces-
sary social perspective). Even nature is part of this framed social ‘reality’,
in the sense and in the degree it enters our social experience. If it doesn’t (a
very rare experience), it is still part of our social ‘reality’ (by being, more or
less, absent from it). And as such, social ‘reality’ is still pretty undifferenti-
ated and unconceptualized.
Step 3
‘Reality’
Social ‘reality’
Framed ‘reality’
With framed ‘reality’ (in the sense of Goffman as well as Fillmore and
Lakoff), we are narrowing the perspective even more, actually much more.
Framed ‘reality’ isolates and concentrates on specific aspects, fragments,
usually situations from the largely undefined social ‘reality’, in order to
achieve (more) certainty, definiteness, in order to disambiguate and de-bias
what may (still) be undefined and uncertain in the social ‘reality’ at large,
124
