Cassirer's theory of concept proved its great fruitfulness for the whole field of theoretical knowledge; it freed the principles and methods of human reason from the shadow of absoluteness and disclosed their functional nature as flexible instruments of human knowledge. And just as the functional concept contains a direction, a certain point of view which serves as a basis of measurement for the similarity of single elements and arranges them in groups and series according to their affinity, so "the ideal connections spoken of by logic and mathematics are the permanent lines of direction, by which experience is orientated in its scientific shaping. The function of these connections is their permanent and indestructible value, and is verified as identical through all changes in the accidental material of experience." Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
