another concrete philosophical science, according to the ways one imparted a more concrete

It would, however, be a superfluous and thankless task to try to use such an unmanageable and

inadequate medium as spatial figures and numbers for the expression of thoughts, and to treat them

violently for this purpose. For the specific concept would always be related only externally to

them. The simple elementary figures and numbers can in any case be used as symbols, which,

however, are a subordinate and poor expression for thoughts. The first attempts of pure thought

took recourse to such aids: the Pythagorean system of numbers is the famous example of this. But

with richer concepts these means became completely unsatisfactory, since their external