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Interesting thoughts on perception: that it is a unified whole, not the product of constituent sensations. Binswanger recommends that the term sensation not be used for describing awareness for higher organisms; it is perception, awareness of entities via sense receptors, that the higher organisms have. Binswanger's thoughts differ from Ayn Rand's, who has written about percepts being composed of sensations.
— May 03, 2014 09:15AM
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Higher level concepts are conceptualized by abstraction from abstractions: using first level concepts, formed from perceptual awareness, as the base for concepts of a widening or narrowing variety. The topic of concept hierarchy reminded me of the reason why it's difficult to speak to many people about certain topics: they don't have a proper link of concepts and emotion forms their meaning of words such as justice.
— May 16, 2014 01:30PM
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In the chapter on Concept-Formation, Binswanger provides the reader with a brief understanding what concepts are under Realism & Nominalism. Opposed to those schools, Binswanger outlines the theory of concepts being formed by differentiating existents (via commensurate characteristics), measurement omission (some but any measurement), and culminating in integrating the units into a mental entity with a word.
— May 14, 2014 07:44AM
