Abstract
The duality of humans’ relations to objects’ form and features and to their existence as matter and continuous threads in time and space has far-reaching consequences for our capacity to accumulate and communicate empirical knowledge, for our knowledge of laws of nature, for our framing of sensory perception, and for emotions, affections, sentiments, motivation, love and solidarity, meaning and culture rooted in significant places, objects, and persons.
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The challenging experiences can of course also be just ignored or suppressed as we see with superstitious or prejudiced coping, unfortunately not a nonhuman animal privilege.
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As said, language, as a medium or vehicle, is a guide to the specific human being in the world, already from infancy, and inaccessible to nonhuman animals. But it does not in itself create the specific human relation to the world. The guide is not the landscape.
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For the purpose of the example, I ignore that the Danish police doesn’t care about bicycle theft.
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The kilo is the last of the basic standards or units in physics being defined by choice of a particular. Eventually it will be defined by reference to elementary particles which are considered to be unchangeable.
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Mammen, J. (2017). Consequences of the Duality in Humans’ Relations to the World of Objects. In: A New Logical Foundation for Psychology . SpringerBriefs in Psychology(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67783-5_6
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