#descriptive science

§74. Descriptive and Exact Sciences. [Ideas I, p. 166]

§74. Descriptive and Exact Sciences. [Ideas I, p. 166]

Let us connect our considerations to the contrast between geometry and descriptive natural science. The geometer is not interested in de facto sensuously intuitable shapes, as the descriptive natural scientist is. He does not, like the latter, fashion morphological concepts of vague configurational types which are directly seized upon on…