@article {1327, title = {The Environment and Its Ontological Status}, journal = {Organon F}, volume = {23}, number = {4}, year = {2016}, pages = {488-502}, type = {State}, abstract = {Is reality a {\textquoteleft}Ready-Made World{\textquoteright} or an entity constructed by individuals and social activity? The concept of the environment seems to be the boundary that clearly shows how we can simultaneously adhere to our apparently contradictory intuitions{\textemdash} that is, those about the external and autonomous features of reality independent of human intervention, and those about its undeniably constructed character. The environment, then, seems to be a concept that shows how non-epistemic and epistemic notions of reality (i.e. respectively seeing reality as independent from and dependent on us) can be understood cohesively.}, keywords = {Affordances, environment, natural selection, niche construction, realism}, url = {http://www.klemens.sav.sk/fiusav/doc/organon/2016/4/488-502.pdf}, author = {Italia, Salvatore} }