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What we cannot know, however, we do not need to know in order to plan our own lives and to find our role in the creative advance that is reality. Moreover, we know what, in principle, it is that we are missing, and why, no matter how our knowledge may increase, we are always bound to miss it

Wiki MarkupIn sum: Perception is essentially concrete in that it exhibits all the general categories of reality, but it is in detail abstract by failing to exhibit distinctly most of the individual instances of these categories. Science, on the other hand, is essentialy abstract in that it systematically sets aside some categories because they are not interindividually measurable, but in detail it is concrete by its power to detect otherwise hidden individual cases of the categories it employs. Science may be used to remedy the defects of perception by expanding the inventory of individuals far beyond the deliverances of direct perception. Perception (or what perception and memory have in common) may be used to remedy the defects of science by expanding the list of cosmically applicable categories to include those systematically set aside by science. The only question is how tills is to be done---whether (as Hartshorne holds) by including "generalized \ [_sic_\!\] versions of the basic dimensions of experience as such, e.g., qualities of feeling and personal and impersonal memory (i.e., perception)," or whether (as I hold) solely and simply by including the analyzed logical/ontological structure of experience as such, in its nonsensuous aspect, as distinct from its aspect as sense experience or perception.