Autor: Flanagan, Josef

Buch: Quest for Self-Knowledge

Titel: Quest for Self-Knowledge

Stichwort: common sense; konkret, Galileo

Kurzinhalt: 2 Bedeutungen von "konkret"; Bedeutung am Beispiel des Lesens

Textausschnitt: Before children learn how to read they can see the written or printed letters but cannot see words, phrases, sentences, and paragraphs.

()What Galileo did not realize was that there were two quite different meanings of the term 'concrete.' First, the term refers to the immediate, actual, and particular aspects of things that come to be interpreted and mediated through common-sense modes of knowing. Second, the meaning of 'concrete' refers not only to the actual and particular things as particular, but to everything about these particular actual things. In other words, the 'concrete' is both particular and comprehensive.