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Re: basic question

From:<bjm10@...>
Date:Monday, June 11, 2001, 0:10
On Mon, 11 Jun 2001, claudio wrote:

> now what we need is an crterium to create an *exact border* to separate the so-called abstract > terms from the concrete ones, which are in truth just "more abtract > terms". > abstraction ~ category ~ generalization.
Kant failed at this task, but he never realized it. So did Wittgenstein--but he embraced the failure as an insight into the nature of language.