The Immediate and the Naive Metaphysics

In this article, I discuss Pirmin Stekeler-Weithofer’s ideas about the nature of language and the metaphysical residue that seems to be present in the realm of immediate experience, despite all the criticism and success of positive knowledge. This includes, first and foremost, the ability to perceive objects, facts, and possible worlds which humans have from the early stages of their development, but which are difficult to describe theoretically due to their pragmatic nature. These should be approached not through ontology or the theory of knowledge, but through the use of language for communication. Objects, facts, and possible worlds in relation to semantic formal ontology and pragmatics are epiphenomena of signification. It is based on basic metaphors of a non-cognitive nature.