L'ontologia della conoscenza ordinaria

All organisms are cognitive systems, and life itself owes its preservation to a cognitive process. Such a process produces the biological knowledge, which is constituted by information relating to the external world or our own body. In humans the biological knowledge becomes much more complex than that of other animal species for the presence of the neocortex and the influence of sociocultural context: this kind of knowledge is called ‘ordinary knowledge’. In this paper I want to focus on the ontological structures of the world of ordinary knowledge. I argue that the ontological question of what there is, from the perspective of ordinary knowledge, is intricately bound to what can be perceived; indeed, the world of ordinary knowledge is made up of everyday objects experienced at the mesoscopic level.