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Quotes · Neal Wood

“History is the world of experience abridged by the category of the past. Science is experience conceptualized quantitatively. Practice is experience abstracted in terms of will.”

– Neal Wood, “A Guide to the Classics: The Skepticism of Professor Oakeshott”, The Journal of Politics, 1959, pg. 648.

From volume VII of the file · Essay & article · 20th century

Themes: history · philosophy · science & technology

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“The philosopher takes the everyday concepts of life and uses them as apertures for the observation of experience.”

– Neal Wood, “A Guide to the Classics: The Skepticism of Professor Oakeshott”, The Journal of Politics, 1959, pg. 649.