Yet the conceptions held by others are available to us, in the sense that when we truly understand their conception of things we come to recognize possibilities latent within our own rationality, or existent in the history of our own reason, and those ways of conceiving of things become salient for us for the first time, or once again.
In other words, there is no homogeneous “backcloth” to our world. We are multiple from the start. Our indigenous conceptions are diverse, whether they are centered in our official texts or in our underground newspapers, in our public discourse or our psychoanalytic soliloquies, in our customary practices or our diosyncratic routines, in our daytime task analyses or our nighttime fantasies.