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“Even the most scientific investigator in science, the most thoroughgoing Positivist, cannot dispense with fiction; he must at least make use of categories, and they are already fictions, analogical fictions, or labels, which give us the same pleasure as children receive when they are told the…” quote by Havelock Ellis — Download Open image

“Even the most scientific investigator in science, the most thoroughgoing Positivist, cannot dispense with fiction; he must at least make use of categories, and they are already fictions, analogical fictions, or labels, which give us the same pleasure as children receive when they are told the "name" of a thing.”

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...the number of saintly men has not yet risen to the level where the census makes them a separate statistical category.

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We don't need to complicate all the "reasons" behind our emotions. It's much simpler than that. Two categories .. good feelings, bad feelings.

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I am devoting my lecture in this seminar to a discussion of the possibility that we are now entering a Jewish century, a time…

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... the notions category and functor were not formulated or put in print until the idea of a natural transformation was also at hand.

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