"Modern man, seeking a middle position in the evaluation of sense impression and thought, can, following Plato, interpret the process of understanding nature as a correspondence, that is, a coming into congruence of pre-existing images of the human psyche with external objects and their behaviour. Modern man, of course, unlike Plato, looks on the pre-existent original images also as not invariable, but as relative to the development of a conscious point of view, so that the word "dialectic" which Plato is fond of using may be applied to the process of development of human knowledge."
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Writings on Physics and Philosophy (1994) 16. "Science and Western Thought" p. 142
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Wolfgang Pauli
1900 – 1958
österreichischer Physiker (Nobelpreis 1945)
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