Unframing Through Externalization

Prosen's conception of the extension and temporal transfor-mation of the bounds of viability of a single cognitive agent can be fruitfully complemented with a Sellarsian ac-count of language as rule-governed be-havior. Specifically, language allows for the externalization of the organism's model of its own bounds of viability into a collective model that is instantiated in concrete linguistic practices that follow norms of use. This externalization gives cognitive agents the resources to un-frame from their evolved problem space, extend their bounds of viability and transform them through time.