Apr 24, 2007

We think forward but understand backward

We think forward but understand backward.

- Louis O. Mink, Mind, History and Dialectic: The Philosophy of R.G. Collingwood (Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1969), p. 18. Quoted by Joseph M. Felser in “After the Revolution, or, Paradigms Lost: Outsiders, Anomalies, and the Future of ‘Forbidden Science’.”

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