Polo had no “Platonic” intuition of the unknown animal, nor did he try to construct its image and notion ex novo, but cobbled together previous notions, thus creating a new entity starting from some ideas about entities already known.
Umberto Eco, Kant and the Platypus: Essays on Language and Cognition, p. 59
Polo had no “Platonic” intuition of the unknown…
Polo had no “Platonic” intuition of the unknown animal, nor did he try to construct its image and notion ex novo, but cobbled together previous notions, thus creating a new entity starting from some ideas about entities already known. Umberto Eco, Kant and the Platypus: Essays on Language and Cognition, p. 59
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