Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart) / quote 51 of 171

Concepts describe the world, experience is of it

One may be aware of one’s concepts and mental operations but that is the result of one’s capability of being conscious of the world (and thus also of certain internal tools to describe the world). In other words, we should not mix the concepts that we use to describe the world (like mathematics) with our experience of the world.

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