In particular, the denial that epistemology is wholly prior
to ontology; the denial that we can have an absolutely certain starting point; the idea that those elements of experience thought by most
people to be primitive givens are in fact
physiologically, personally, and socially constructed; the idea that all of our descriptions of our observations involve culturally conditioned interpretations; the idea that our interpretations, and the focus of our conscious attention, are conditioned by our purposes; the idea that the so - called scientific method
does not guarantee neutral, purely objective, truths; and the idea that most of our ideas
do not correspond
to things beyond ourselves in any simple, straightforward way (for example, red as we see it
does not exist in the «red brick» itself).