What I've elsewhere called the pragmatist version of artificial intelligence claims that there is a set of practices or abilities that are non-discursive in the sense that each one of them can be engaged in or exercised by non-discursive creatures, and yet which can be algorithmically elaborated into the discursive capacity to use concepts and speak an autonomous language. But fundamental pragmatism need not take such a strong reductive form. One might claim more modestly that discursive activity, from everyday thought to the cogitations of the theoretical physicist, is a species of practical intentionality, a determination of that determinable, and indeed one that's intelligible as having developed out of non-discursive practical intentionality, while still maintaining that it's a wholly distinctive variety.↩