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Ryall here opposes the neo-Kantian claim that our conceptions of this external world are determined, not by the world itself or our experience of it, but solely by the "language-game" or "conceptual scheme" we inhabit. Despite its generally being considered that, in gauging whether or not we can gain cognitive access to the world, it is first necessary to appraise the mental resources that are required in enabling us to do so (hence the usual descriptive order here of a "mind-world relation"), the opposite is argued in this chapter (as one can gather from its heading) inasmuch as it is the world itself which conditions our cognitive or empirical awareness of it; and this another sense, of course, in which our cognition conforms to objects.

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-56771-6_7

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