Quote: possible experience can alone give reality to our concepts; without it a concept is merely an idea, without truth or relation to an object

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Possible experience can alone give reality to our concepts; without it a concept is merely an idea, without truth or relation to an object. Hence a possible empirical concept must be the standard by which are to judge whether an idea is anything more than an idea and fiction of thought, or whether it relates to an object in the world.   Google-1   Google-2

Published before 1923

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