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Full Idea
While the natural order is richer than our conceptual representations of it, nonetheless our concepts can be adequate to real singulars because simplification is not falsification.
Gist of Idea
Our concepts can never fully capture reality, but simplification does not falsify
Source
Stephen Boulter (Why Medieval Philosophy Matters [2019], 1)
Book Ref
Boulter,Stephen: 'Why Medieval Philosophy Matters' [Bloomsbury 2019], p.38
A Reaction
I don't know if 'simplification' is one of the faculties I am trying to identify. I suspect it is a common factor among most of our intellectual faculties. I love 'simplification is not falsification'. Vagueness isn't falsification either.