Abstract

In Cognitive Pragmatism Nicholas Rescher attempts to lay to rest the perennial problem concerning the epistemic gap between what is directly given to us and the reality-claims that we base upon this. It is found that he offers many different candidates for what is this mental middleman that stands between us and reality, and that none of them is above suspicion. His resolution of the epistemic gap problem is, in effect, a dogmatic rejection of the meaningfulness of the philosophical language-game in which it is raised