15. The Theory of Categories
GA 108/1908-11-13/p014
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If one would follow Spencer's line of thought, one would arrive at this, that concepts only arise through the crystallizing of the special observations out of the general.[^2] So long as I relate myself in regard to the noise, as Spencer describes it, I can never come to cognition at all.
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