Ever since Kant divorced reason from reality, his intellectual descendants have
been diligently widening the breach. In the name of reason, Pragmatism
established a range-of-the-moment view as an enlightened perspective on life,
context-dropping as a rule of epistemology, expediency as a principle of
morality, and collective subjectivism as a substitute for metaphysics. Logical
Positivism carried it farther and, in the name of reason, elevated the
immemorial psycho-epistemology of shyster-lawyers to the status of a scientific
epistemological system—by proclaiming that knowledge consists of linguistic
manipulations.