ABSTRACT
The primary task that the scientific concept has to fulfill seems in fact to be simply to set up a rule of determination that must be confirmed in what can be intuited and in the sphere of intuition. All concept formation, regardless of the particular problem with which it may start, is ultimately oriented toward one basic goal and key objective, toward the determination of the “truth as such.” The boundary between “intuition” and “concept” is usually drawn in such a way as to distinguish intuition as an “immediate” relation to the object from the mediated “discursive” process of the concept. Some logicians have in fact gone so far as not only to distinguish what they called the “logical concept” from the “scientific concept” but to actually regard them in a sense as polar opposites. The concept appears as a product of “unconscious” traces and residues that have been left behind in the brain by earlier sense perceptions.
