Erkendelsens teori og erkendelsens psykologi

Abstract

I argue in the article for the classical distinction between a theory of knowledge, understood as the philosophical arguments put forward in support of scientific methods, on the one hand, - and the psychology of knowledge, understood as the empirical
study of how humans in practice cognize their world, on the other. With this distinction as the point of departure, Jens Marnmens concept of the specific human sense of the concrete is discussed. I maintain that on the one hand Mammens conceptualisation
clarify an important and general human capacity. On the other hand I try to sho how Marnmens Jack of distinction between the theory of knowledge and the psychology of knowledge makes it difficult to develop and investigate empirically the insight
he has formulated as the specific human sense of the concrete.