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It's not Mike's phrase, it's Marx's phrase. Did Marx and Lenin know each other? Scholarship is still divided on that point. ; ) Martin On Aug 14, 2012, at 5:22 PM, Greg Thompson wrote: > Still in between boxes but came across this quote from Lenin today: > ‘In order to understand it is necessary empirically to begin understanding, > study, to rise, from empiricism to the universal. In order to learn to swim > it is necessary to get into the > water<http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1914/cons-logic/ch03.htm#LCW38_205> > ’. > (found at: > http://www.marxists.org/archive/pilling/works/capital/pilling3.htm) > > and it reminded me of one of mike's favorite statements "rising to the > concrete." Yet Mike's phrase appears quite different. So Mike, if you're > out there, does your "rising to the concrete" bear any significant relation > to Lenin's rising to the universal? They seem like very different concepts, > no? > > -greg > > -- > Gregory A. Thompson, Ph.D. > Sanford I. Berman Post-Doctoral Scholar > Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition > Department of Communication > University of California, San Diego > http://ucsd.academia.edu/GregoryThompson > __________________________________________ > _____ > xmca mailing list > xmca@weber.ucsd.edu > http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca > __________________________________________ _____ xmca mailing list xmca@weber.ucsd.edu http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca