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“We may recall the examples of it which Spieth adduces: water found by a thirsty person, a termite mound that hides and saves someone, any new object that inspires a man with sudden terror-all these are transformed directly into gods.”
— Jul 06, 2026 10:41AM
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Alfreien
is on page 32 of 128
“The aim of theoretical thinking, as we have seen, is primarily to deliver the contents of sensory or intuitive experience from the isolation in which they originally occur. It causes these contents to transcend their narrow limits, combines them with others, compares them, and concatenates them in a definite order, in an all-inclusive context.”
— Jul 06, 2026 10:27AM
Alfreien
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“For all the concepts of theoretical knowledge constitute merely an upper stratum of logic which is founded upon a lower stratum, that of the logic of language.”
— Jul 06, 2026 10:11AM
Alfreien
is on page 28 of 128
“All theoretical cognition takes its departure from a world already preformed by language; the scientist, the historian, even the philosopher, lives with his objects only as language presents them to him.”
— Jul 06, 2026 10:11AM
