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²Topics include radical or literal empiricism; radical unbelief; negative universal result; cognitive nihilism; principled hypocracy; gauging the level of credulity (also, credulity-gauging); evaluational processing of experience and the grading of experience; imputation of a context of objectivity (in immediate experience); comporting [oneself] to a context of objectivity; out-of-compartment experience; personalistic subjectivity; cognitive morale; The-World-(including-Ourselves); vertical contradiction. Most of these topics are mentioned in the 1980 texts listed in an appendix.

³Something like a new human self-image might have a role to play also. I take that up beginning in (section)G.

⁴One could not say the objective existence of objects, because space, time, other minds, energies, forces (?meanings, mathematical abstractions) are not objects. It would not be appropriate to use phenomenon as a generic term for objectivities, because phenomenon connotes apparition.

⁵More rigorously, the grading of experience. I will explain below.

⁶Here is where there is a profound role for personhood theory: to show that physico-mathematical science is erected even while it is belied by "configurations or junctures of humanness." There is overt incoherence, community-approved mental play-acting.

⁷I must coin this intransitive usage even if it is barbaric. Critique, opposition, challenge, confrontation, dialectic are inappropriate.

⁸For some pretentious and insincere extremism from the prophets of scientism, see Ayer's and Davies' disparagement of common sense; Tarski's disparagement of natural language; also, Popper's ridicule of historical cognition. The references are in an appendix. There is also the current academic canard that Derrida's deconstruction has abolished all truth.

⁹Brouwer or Wittgenstein or Yessenin-Volpin on "Platonic" logic and mathematics.

¹⁰It is not the task of this essay to present the negative universal result; but I reprint some heuristic remarks on its strategy in an appendix (with some remarks on vertical contradiction).

¹¹The central proposition in applied arithmetic.

¹²Might a private experience give you a power to intervene in other people's "worlds" in irresistable ways? This alternative is too elusive to be important.

¹³Noam Chomsky proposed that common sense is an "innate" thought-structure like natural language. See especially his Reflections on Language (1975), pp. 43-6, 123, 154-7, 203. This speculation was not well-received.

¹⁴Cf. Morris Kline, Mathematical Thought from Ancient to Modern Times (1972); my aforementioned "Anti-Mathematics" (1980).

¹⁵Incongruities for what Husserl called, without explanation, "the whole."

¹⁶Another selection on this site, also published in Blueprint for a Higher Civilization, pp. 20-23.

¹⁷Correlative to the dichotomy, object-zone vs. personal subjectivity.--?

¹⁸"Imminent" seems better here than "immanent." Cf. "Personhood II."

¹⁹Or to Marx's standpoint in the 1844 Manuscripts.

²⁰The point was made in Blueprint for a Higher Civilization, p. 23.