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Substance and Function

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Also known as: “Substanzbegriff und Funktionsbegriff”

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In Ernst Cassirer
…work, Substanzbegriff und Funktionsbegriff (1910; Substance and Function), he treated the related topic of concept formation. Attacking the view that a concept is formed by abstracting from a number of particular instances, he argued that the concept, as an instrument in organizing human knowledge, is already pre-existent before any task…
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