The assault on man’s conceptual faculty has been accelerating since Kant,
widening the breach between man’s mind and reality. The cognitive function of
concepts was undercut by a series of grotesque devices—such, for instance, as
the “analytic-synthetic” dichotomy which, by a route of tortuous
circumlocutions and equivocations, leads to the dogma that a “necessarily” true
proposition cannot be factual, and a factual proposition cannot be
“necessarily” true.