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The ordering in space and time of the contents of consciousness is likewise the means by which we learn to determine the transcendent ordering of the things that lie beyond consciousness. This transcendent ordering is the most important step toward a knowledge of these things. We must give an exact account of how this step is accomplished.
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Dufaur, Archives des sciences physiques et naturelles, Volume 58, p. 232.
On the difference between measurement in the true scientific sense and measurement in the sense of a mere correlation of numbers according to some artificial principle, see J. von Kries, Über die Messung intensiver Größen und das sogenannte psychophysische Gesetz, Viertel] ahrs-schrift für wissenschaftliche Philosophie 6 (1882), p. 257; also my paper, Die Grenze der naturwissenschaftlichen und philosophischen Begriffsbildung, § 5, ibid., 34 (1910), p. 132. (At the time I wrote this paper, I was not aware of von Kries’s work.)
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Schlick, M. (1974). Quantitative and Qualitative Knowledge. In: General Theory of Knowledge. LEP Library of Exact Philosophy, vol 11. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-3099-5_31
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