Quote of the Week
(December 15, 2025)

It is clear enough — trivially clear, it seems — that we cannot conceive any material phenomenon, or any reality at all, that is inconceivable. If an object or phenomenon did not lend itself to our conceptualizing — if nothing of its true nature could be captured in thought — we would never know it because we would not even be able to think it. If we cannot conceive something, it cannot appear as a definite and coherent fact of our experience. Either the world’s character is at least partly given in thought, or else it is altogether alien to our understanding.

(from Chapter 13, “All Science Must Be Rooted in Experience”, in Organisms and Their Evolution — Agency and Meaning in the Drama of Life)

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