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José has no formal knowledge of botany and couldn't be taught it or understand it if he tried. His mind is not built for the abstract, the conceptual. That is not available to him as a path to truth. But he has a passion and a real power for the particular—he loves it, he enters into it, he re-creates it. And the particular, if one is particular enough, is also a road—one might say nature’s road—to reality and truth.

La primera es “el hombre que confundió a su mujer con un sombrero”. Un paciente con agnosia visual y prosopagnosia que vive perdido en un pensamiento abstracto sin reconocer verdaderamente lo que hay a su alrededor. “Visualmente se hallaba perdido en un mundo de abstracciones sin vida. No tenía un verdadero mundo visual, ni un yo visual. Podía hablar de las cosas pero no las veía directamente”