This booklet is nominally approximately linguistic illustration. yet, because it is we who do the representing, it's also approximately us. And, because it is the universe which we symbolize, it's also concerning the universe. after all, then, this e-book is ready every thing, which, because it is a philosophy e-book, is accurately. I realize that it's these days retro to put in writing books approximately each­ factor. Philosophers of language, it is going to be stated, should follow writing approximately language; philosophers of technological know-how, to writing approximately technological know-how; epis­ temologists, to writing approximately realizing; and so forth. the genuine international, although, perversely refuses to carve itself up so well, and, even if I realize that the genuine w,orld is these days additionally retro, in any case I judged that one may well catch up with to the reality of varied concerns by means of going in addition to it. So i've got performed so. lt used to be Wilfrid Sellars who firstly confident me of the virtues of this manner of continuing. At this aspect one in general says anything like "The debt that this ebook owes him is immense". i'd say it too, have been it to not understate the case, From Wilfrid, I discovered to consider issues. If the upshot of my considering has a tendency, because it evidently does, to teach a normal con­ silience with the upshot of his, it really is essentially simply because he's so first-class at it - and he had a head start.