Versions Compared

Old Version 3

changes.mady.by.user Michelle Rosenstock

Saved on

compared with

New Version Current

changes.mady.by.user Andrew Scrimgeour

Saved on

Key

  • This line was added.
  • This line was removed.
  • Formatting was changed.

...

Modern science has achieved its great advances over the Greeks by taking seriously concrete particulars, as distinct from abstract forms, and contenting itself with probablity probability instead of certainty. But even science has had to deal with the concrete somewhat abstractly, ignoring all of its characteristics but those that are perceptually identifiable and measurable. Even so, science views the abstract as means for exploring the more concrete, not vice versa (cf. LP: 118 f.).

...