A concept is formed, not through the interplay of associations, but through an intellectual operation in which all the elementary mental functions participate in specific combinations. This operation is guided by the use of words as the means of actively centering attention, of abstracting certain traits, synthesizing them, and symbolizing them by a sign.
Selbstorganisierende Struktur des Gehirns erklärt nicht nur die die Möglichkeiten weitgehender Kompensation von Schäden beim Kinde, sie ist auch die Basis für eine interaktive, soziale Formung des Denkens und der Sprache in den Prägungsphasen.
But if you have vitality enough of knowing enough of what you mean, somebody and sometime and sometimes a great many will have to realize that you know what you mean and so they will agree that you mean what you know, what you know you mean, which is as near as anybody can come to understand anyone.
The logical properties of "invariance" and "change" are those of representations.
Objects and events are not primitive experiences. Objects and events are representations of relations.
Chance and necessity are concepts that do not apply to the world, but to our attempts to create (a description of) it.
... Words strain,
Crack and sometimes break,
under the burden,
Under the tension,
slip, slide, perish
Decay with imprecision,
will not stay in place,
Will not stay still.
Shrieking voices
Scolding, mocking, or
merely chattering,
Always assail them.