We coin concepts and we use them to analyse and explain nature and society. But we seem to forget, midway, that these concepts are our own constructs and start equating them with reality.
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We live in a society that compels us to go on using these concepts, and we no longer know what they mean.
From time immemorial, man has desired to comprehend the complexity of nature in terms of as few elementary concepts as possible.
We are a species that must try to impose and find systems - systems of thought, ways of organizing and categorizing reality.
Hence it happens that one takes words for concepts, and concepts for the things themselves.
Reality: What a concept!
Awareness of universals is called conceiving, and a universal of which we are aware is called a concept.
Our idea of nature is increasingly being determined by scientific developments. And they have become decisive for our image of reality.
Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.
Our understanding is correlative to our perception.
I tend to think in images and feelings rather than non-abstract concepts.
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