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At least since Aristotle, philosophers have been aware that human experience only becomes possible when specific instances of things are brought under more general concepts relating to them. For many years, this was discussed in terms of the relationship between “particulars” and “universals.” I can only experience this piece of paper as a piece of paper when I recognize this particular one as belonging to a more general class of things.
Psychopathology does not need philosophy because the latter can teach it anything about its own field, but because philosophy can help the psychopathologist so to organise his thought that he can perceive the true possibilities of his knowledge. Karl Jaspers (1923, pp. 46–7)
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Hundert, E.M. (1990). Are Psychotic Illnesses Category Disorders? Proposal for a New Understanding and Classification of the Major Forms of Mental Illness. In: Spitzer, M., Maher, B.A. (eds) Philosophy and Psychopathology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-9028-2_5
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