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).