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When dealing with a subject as large, engaging, and obscure as man, an author is obliged to say forthwith how he intends to approach his problem. For there are many roads leading to partial knowledge of the nature of man; their courses need to be sketched and their goals must be correlated.
Man is not merely made for science, but science is made for man. It expresses his deepest intellectual needs, as well as his careful observations. It is an effort to bring internal meanings into harmony with external vertifications.
Josiah Royce, Introduction to Poincaré’s Foundations of Science.
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Margenau, H. (1978). The New View of Man in His Physical Environment. In: Physics and Philosophy: Selected Essays. Episteme, vol 6. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9845-2_16
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