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So, too, with his argument elsewhere, when he takes up his self-assigned task of reconciling "the two points: Knowing finds, does not produce, what it knows, but knowing is partly constituted by the things known." On the one hand, he holds, "[t]o experience or know is not in the least to create the thing experienced or known. On the other hand, it remains valid that when known the thing known has become part of the life of feeling and/or thought of the knower" (CAP: 148). But, again, for knowing to be partly constituted by things known is one thing; for it to be constituted by other knowing, or, at any rate, other experiencing, is something else. So I dispute his claim that we all experience what he says he experiences, i.e., "the social duality of immediacy, its aspect of participation, sympathy, feeling ofof