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Science, as we often say, is the systematization of Experience under the forms of ideal constructions.
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“Science, as we often say, is the systematization of Experience under the forms of ideal constructions.”

George Henry Lewes

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The Physical Basis of Mind
Date
1877
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Lewes describes science as organized experience shaped into conceptual structures, a historical philosophy-of-science claim about how observation becomes systematic knowledge.

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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.

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