Philosophizing is a process of making sense out of experience, rather than adding to experience itself, as factual learning and experimental investigation do. (Susanne Langer)

Philosophizing is a process of making sense out of experience, rather than adding to experience itself, as factual learning and experimental investigation do.

Susanne Langer

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