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3. From Living Perception to Abstract Thought
 
[introduction.]
 

Knowledge does not stand still, but constantly moves and develops. This development of knowledge is expressed in its movement from direct living perception to abstract thought. “From living perception to abstract thought, and 156 from this to practice,—such is the dialectical path of the cognition of the truth,”  [156•*  Lenin wrote.

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Notes

[156•*]   V. I. Lenin, “Conspectus of Hegel’s Book The Science of Logic”, Collected Works, Vol. 38, p. 171.

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