Conceptual Cognitive Organs: Toward an Historical-Materialist Theory of Scientific Knowledge |
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Authors: | Siyaves Azeri |
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Institution: | 1. Department of Philosophy, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
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Abstract: | Scientific concepts and conceptual systems (theories) are particular forms of higher mental activity. They are cognitive organs that provide the ability of systematic cognition of phenomena, which are not available to the grasp of ordinary sense organs. They are tools of scientific “groping” of phenomena. Scientific concepts free perceptual and cognitive activity from determination of ordinary sense organs by providing a high degree of cognitive abstraction and generalization. Scientific cognition, like perceptual activity, is actualized by consciousness but outside the consciousness. |
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