First, if it were possible to make judgment only based on definitive identities of things with regard to rationality, it would become extremely difficult to explain why sometimes discontinuous changes are observed. It is too apparent that actors cannot identify things with their respectively definitive identities; thus, always refer to contents and contexts to establish reality intelligible to them. But, even in case that reference to contents and contexts are presumed, visible attributes are not likely to differ significantly between actors simply because they share more or less identical visual perceptive systems. Then, bringing about significant differences between actors should be attributed to what cannot directly be observed. As Gibson (1978) establishes, human perceptive systems can as their normal capacities generate two distinct sense data between direct observation and indirect background information at one time. Without assuming this characteristic of human perceptive systems, the most critical assumption in the concept of sensemaking or the logic of practical rationality that one can see a thing in relation to other things is not possible. Then, because of this characteristic shared by all of the actors, visible side of attributes identified can amply certainly be predicted to resemble one another. However, still, such resemblances in appearances never guarantee any exactly identical understandings on such resemblances. Simply, each one has her own perspective. What has been perplexing us most is invisibility of source of each one's perspective. While it is too obvious that different actors have different perspectives, we do not know what causes such differences. Then, scientists tend to look for something we can directly observe. This is the very beginning of mistake, or, such is literally a wrong start. What makes significant difference cannot be observed by anybody by any means including by means of sophisticated devices. Scientists tend to assume that what makes difference should be variance in capacities or environmental factors among different actors partly because they are relatively superior in terms of intellectual capacities to others. Simply, they can see more than others. But, what makes significant differences is something that is never directly observed even by gifted scientists. Time is it. What is important is the fact that everyone can feel time while no one can see it. Why does everyone feel time, then? One is because we have memories. Another is less explicit but, because we are registering data about ceaseless movements through our ceaselessly moving physiological perspectives, we may eventually feel time. Thus, the reason why everyone without exception feels time is grounded conspicuously in sense data received from materially real things. Hence, time is both material and fictive.
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