“Science, as we often say, is the systematization of Experience under the forms of ideal constructions.”
- Date
- 1877
Meaning of “Science, as we often say, is the systematization…”
Lewes describes science as organized experience shaped into conceptual structures, a historical philosophy-of-science claim about how observation becomes systematic knowledge.
Where does it come from?
The Physical Basis of Mind, Problem I, “The Study of Psychology,” in the discussion of modern scientific method; Project Gutenberg #60212. The wording belongs to Lewes’s 1877 framework, not current philosophy-of-science consensus.