The rationalist prejudice of an absolute human reason, universal to all men and to all time, has created an artificially exalted and impossible conception of the categories as fixed and unalterable modes of mind. ('The Nature Of The A Priori', p. 233)
The assumption that our categories are fixed for all time by an original human endowment, is a superstition comparable to the belief of primitive peoples that general features of their life and culture are immemorial and of supernatural origin. ('The Nature Of The A Priori', p. 234)
(NY: Dover Publications, January, 1991. Originally in 1929 https://archive.org/details/MindAndTheWorldOrderOutlineOfATheoryOfKnowledgeClarenceIrvingLewis)
The assumption that our categories are fixed for all time by an original human endowment, is a superstition comparable to the belief of primitive peoples that general features of their life and culture are immemorial and of supernatural origin. ('The Nature Of The A Priori', p. 234)
(NY: Dover Publications, January, 1991. Originally in 1929 https://archive.org/details/MindAndTheWorldOrderOutlineOfATheoryOfKnowledgeClarenceIrvingLewis)