[There is a] long conceptual chain that starts from simple, ostensive
definitions and rises to higher and still higher concepts, forming a
hierarchical structure of knowledge so complex that no electronic computer
could approach it. It is by means of such chains that man has to acquire and
retain his knowledge of reality.
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