Integrating the 'real'

► Reocentric and contractualist models of reality cannot do justice to the human condition in its multiple facets. ► Integrationism treats reality as pertaining to the individual only, i.e. the question whether there is an independently given reality or a linguistically constructed one is irrelevant, ontologically speaking, if we place the individual at the center of our focus. ► An integrational semiology relativizes the importance of language as a means to knowledge and treats the latter as an integrational process occurring in a contextually unique situation; knowledge is thus not to be mistaken for information (as contained in books or stored in databases). ► (scientific) knowledge and (religious) belief are not so diametrically opposed as modern society wants us to believe.