Assembling material
Gradual application
Fictional knowledge
Heading into the city with keen expectancy, new sensations await interpretation within a sporadically encountered stimulation field.
“The psyche works over the material presented to it by the sensations, i.e. elaborates the only available foundation with the help of the logical forms; it sifts the sensations, on the one hand cutting away definite portions of the given sensory material, in conformity with the logical functions, and on the other making subjective additions to what is immediately given – and it is in these very operations that the process of acquiring knowledge consists and it is all the while departing from reality as given to it.” – Hans Vaihinger