y of meaning. One uses language to communicate about the 
process of communicating, of course; but it does not follow that the 
most appropriate place to start studying is the language one uses to 
state the study in.

&gt; &gt; of what it is that we (or they) are knowing, it is both
&gt; &gt; premature and rather hopeless to try to think about how
&gt; &gt; it is that it (whatever it is) can be known.
&gt;
&gt; &gt; Meaning is not reducible to agency;
&gt; &gt; rather, agency presumes meaning.
&gt;
&gt;Oka