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1. Lord, grant me the serenity to accept things I cannot change;
2. The courage to change things I can;
3. The grit to get done things I must;
4. And the wisdom to know the difference.

(4) the irreproducible "initial" observation, which cannot be clearly seen in retrospect, constituting a chaos; (5) the slow and laborious revelation and awareness of "what one actually sees" or the gaining of experience; (6) that what has been revealed and concisely summarized in a scientific statement is an artificial structure, related but only genetically so, both to the original intention and to the substance of the "first" observation. The original observation need not even belong to the same class as that of the facts it led toward.
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Direct perception of form [Gestaltsehen] requires being experienced in the relevant field of thought. The ability directly to perceive meaning, form, and self-contained unity is acquired only after much experience, perhaps with preliminary training. At the same time, of course, we lose the ability to see something that contradicts the form.

--- Ludwik Fleck, Genesis and development of a scientific fact.

“Cultural representations such as Little Red Riding Hood, the Golden Rule, or multiplication tables are, most of the time, considered in the abstract, even though they must be instantiated in mental and public representations in order to play a role in human affairs.. Since representations are recognized in our commonsense ontology, the question arises: What cognitive mechanisms do we have, if any, for drawing inferences about them? ”

“There must be a mindreading module—actually a minds-reading module, with “minds” in the plural—that has the job of managing, in our mental files about other people, what these people have in their men “mental files. No such module, however, could do the job on its own. In order to perform mindreading inferences about the inferences that are performed in other people’s mind, the mindreading module must be linked to a great variety of other inferential modules and use them for updating the information represented in individual files.”

Dan Sperber. “The Enigma of Reason: A New Theory of Human Understanding.”

Hence it follows, 
             that the human mind 
is part of the infinite 
             intellect of God; 

thus when we say, that 
           the human mind perceives this or that, 
                     we make the assertion, that 
God has this or that idea, 

not in so far as he is infinite, 
                           but 
in so far as he is 
              displayed through the nature of the human mind, 
or in so far as 

he constitutes the essence 
                 of the human mind; 

and when we say that 
             God has this or that idea, 
not only in so far as 
           he constitutes the essence of the human mind, 

but also in so far as 
           he, simultaneously with the human mind, 
                       has the further idea of another thing, 

we assert that 
the human mind perceives a thing 
           in part or inadequately.


--- Spinoza, The Ethics. Part II, Prop XI, Corollary. 

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3800/3800-h/3800-h.htm#chap02