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“The supreme maxim in scientific philosophizing is this: Wherever possible, logical constructions are to be substituted for inferred entities.”

In other words, instead of assuming hidden causes or transcendental principles behind everything we see or do, we are to redefine the concepts of abstract thought as constructs, or functions, or complexes, or patterns, or arrangements, of the things that we do actually see or do.  All concepts that cannot be defined in terms of the elements of actual experience are meaningless.

- Transcendental Nonsense and the Functional Approach, Felix Cohen