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for concrete definitions and explicit demonstrations, gradually leading to
 
for concrete definitions and explicit demonstrations, gradually leading to
 
primitive elements of more and more durable utilities.
 
primitive elements of more and more durable utilities.
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| The form counts as something enduring and therefore more valuable; 
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| but the form has merely been invented by us;  and however often
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| "the same form is attained", it does not mean that it is the
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| same form -- what appears is always something new, and it
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| is only we, who are always comparing, who include the new,
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| to the extent that it is similar to the old, in the unity of
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| the "form".  As if a type should be attained and, as it were,
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| was intended by and inherent in the process of formation.
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| (Nietzsche, 'The Will to Power', S 521, 282).
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A unity can be forged among the methods by noticing the following
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connections among them.  All the while that one proceeds deductively,
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the primitive elements, the definitions and the axioms, must still be
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introduced hypothetically, notwithstanding the support they get from
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common sense and widespread assent.  And the whole symbolic system
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that is constructed through hypothesis and deduction must still be
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tested in experience to see if it serves any purpose to maintain it.
   
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