[ricknew]

Two points in the article that stand out for me are:

1. it’s a logical flaw to think that if we have to take it seriously, we also have to take it literally.

That literalness narrows us, keeps us in the confines of language. Seriousness let's us act/respond, literalness is extra.

2. The experiences of everyday life — my real feeling of a headache, my real taste of chocolate — that really is the ultimate nature of reality.

Returning/remembering the sensual world, the everydayness of things, less cluttered by our literal interpretation is a way of reconnecting with "reality". It is a move away from metaphysics by questioning the metaphysics we may hold without realizing it.