Manifest Image Guide

Its basic objects are persons, animals, and "material" things like trees and stones. It often interprets inanimate objects through a "depersonalized" lens—seeing trees or rivers as having a nature, rather than being mere aggregates of atoms.

It is not merely "primitive," but a sophisticated, corrected version of common sense. It includes empirical refinement (using induction to learn about our environment) but excludes the postulation of unobservable, imperceptible entities. Manifest image

The manifest image is not a static relic of history; it continues to evolve as humans develop new ways of understanding themselves. If you'd like to explore this further, I can: Its basic objects are persons, animals, and "material"

Sellars proposed that modern philosophy is caught between two competing images of "man-in-the-world": Its basic objects are persons