The following excerpt is taken from:

Siegfried J. Schmidt; On the construction of 'the construction of reality'

"But look, many people say, we do live in a real world with houses and cars, with other people, with rain and sunshine - why do you deny this apparent truth? My answer is: We live the world with what we describe in ever changing ways as houses and cars and so on. Only "within" our world can we postulate a beyond of our world which thus forms a possible part of our world, viz. our discourses. Let me return to the beginning of my considerations. All our philosophical dichotomies - from subject and object to truth and error - are introduced into our discourses in our dis-courses. They can not be taken as objective givens in "the reality" outside, before or inde-pendent of our discourses. The objects of descriptions - houses and cars, sun and rain - do not precede the descriptions of objects in an ontological way, but only in a temporal one. Experi-ence is measured against experience, meaning against meaning, knowledge against knowl-edge, theory against theory, praxis against praxis. As individuals, we are always too late. As children we are born into a socially and culturally ordered world which we can only consciously observe after we have "installed" their sym-bolic orders into our cognitive systems. Language and communication operate beyond the individual's reach. Even our consciousness follows preceding neuronal activities of our brain. On the other hand: if we weren't too late we wouldn't come nowhere. So let us decide to live in the worlds emerging from our living together."