Thinking Individually in Scientific Methodology - George H. Mead - Gece Kitaplığı

“...The scientist in the ancient world found his test of reality in the evidence of the presence of the essence of the object. This evidence came by way of observation, even to the Pla-tonist. Plato could treat this evidence as the awaking of memories of the ideal essence of the object seen in a world beyond the heavens during a former stage of the existence of the soul. In the language of Theatetus it was the agree-ment of fluctuating sensual content with the thought-content imprinted in or viewed by the soul...”