Autor: Flanagan, Josef

Buch: Quest for Self-Knowledge

Titel: Quest for Self-Knowledge

Stichwort: Ding, Notion

Kurzinhalt: Erfassung des Dinges in beschreibender und erklärender Weise

Textausschnitt: () To understand the thing, we have to shift from both the limited and specialized viewpoint of common sense and the remarkably different, abstract and limited perspective of science and consider things both in their descriptive and in their explanatory aspects, which means that we must consider them comprehensively and concretely. The term 'concrete' refers, not only to the particular and actual aspects of things, but also to their general and comprehensive characteristics. To know a thing concretely is to know that thing both comprehensively and singularly