Reason and Reality The purpose of this rese

The basic premise of the concept of mundane reasoning processes is that the standard assumptions about reality that people typically make as they go about day to day, including the very fact that they experience their reality as perfectly natural, are actually the result of social, cultural, and historical processes that make a particular perception of the world readily available. In two essays, "Mundane Reasoning" and "`The Very Coinage of Your Brain': The Anatomy of Reality Disjunctures," Pollner develops the idea that apparently idiosyncratic or irrational characterizations of reality can be attributed at least as much to the social and cultural conditions under which perceptions of objective reality arise as to the perceptual ability of the individual organism on one hand or the subjective nature of the universe on the other. In "Mundane Reasoning," Pollner describes the readily available world as a world that is intersubjectively shared but that is experienced as objective reality. The real key to its importance is that it is the world on which the actions and ideas of most people depend. He describes the world in this way to emphasize its soci

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ndane reasoning" (47). Thus it is that when the puzzle and not the solution to discrepancies of perception about the world predominates, individuals attribute the discrepancies or the persistence of the puzzle to a specific set of conditions that explain why others do not share their objective experience of the objective world. Others' subjective or objective incompetence or motives vis-a-vis the objective world are deemed to be at fault for the failure to arrive at a shared experience of reality. They become "political" for one (individual or group), says Pollner, because of "the contentions, claims and experiences of the other" (422). It might also be said that the stakes are raised to the degree one's contentions and claims are directly opposite to those of the other. Pollner's conception of irony is instructive at this point. He says that understanding or characterizing faulty perceptions or reflections of reality is "the product of an operation of irony. The experienced version that will be labelled, say, hallucination presupposed an experience or version of the world that is deemed to have presented the world as it really and actually is" (414). However, it will have been shown to be the case that the perception is discredi
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