“To trace the development of mind from earliest times...requires...not a categorical concept, but a functional one… The most promising operational principle for this purpose is the principle of individuation.[p. 310]" "[yet she also says:]...we have no physical model of this… — Susanne K. Langer Copy Share Image
“The reaction on the part of the apes, limited as it was to about one subject in every three or four, has just that… — Susanne K. Langer Copy Share Image
“To trace the development of mind from earliest times...requires...not a categorical concept, but a functional one… The most promising operational principle for this purpose… — Susanne K. Langer Copy Share Image
“The assignment of meanings [in music] is a shifting, kaleidoscopic play, probably below the threshold of consciousness, certainly outside the pale of discursive thinking.… — Susanne K. Langer Copy Share Image
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