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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
Quand nous ferons naître la pensée, elle naîtra ainsi dans un univers déjà rangé.
When we come to exhibit the birth of thought we shall find that it is born into a universe that is already ordered.
Simone Weil, Leçons de Philosophie, ed. A. Reynaud (Paris 1959), p. 24, translated by Hugh Price, Lectures on Philosophy (Cambridge, 1978).The relation between my consciousness and a world is not a mere matter of contingency imposed on me by a God who happened to decide the matter this way rather than that, or imposed on me by a world accidentally preexisting and a mere causal regularity belonging to it. It is the a priori of the judging subject which has precedence over the being of God and the world and each and everything in the world. Even God is for me what he is in consequence of my own productivity of consciousness. Fear of blasphemy must not distract us here from the problem. [But] here too, as we found in the case of other minds, the productivity of consciousness does not itself signify that I invent or fabricate this transcendency, let alone this highest of transcendencies.
Edmund Husserl, Formale und Transzendentale Logik (Halle (Saale), 1929), pp. 221–2.ANTI-REALIST CONCEPTUALISM AND ANTI-CONCEPTUALIST REALISM
Chapter Four was an exploration of the conceptual limits of our thinking about the things that belong to this or that particular ultimate individuative kind. It pointed to the riches that will lie hidden within any individuative kind which is a natural or real kind.
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