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Folksonomies: philosophy Memes
22 JAN 2014
Concepts Represent the Complex of Our Experiences
The only justification for our concepts is that they serve to represent thc complex of our experiences; beyond this they have no legitimacy. I am convinced that the philosophers had a harmful effect upon the progress of scientific thinking in removing certain fundamental concepts from the domain of empiricism, where they are under control, to the intangible heights of the a priori—the universe of ideas is just as little independent of the nature of our experiences as clothes are of the form o...Just as clothes represent the form of the human body.