Full Idea
For Hegel, the structure of our concepts and categories is identical with, and thus discloses, the structure of the world itself, because we ourselves are born into and so share the character of the world we encounter.
Gist of Idea
Our concepts and categories disclose the world, because we are part of the world
Source
report of Georg W.F.Hegel (works [1812]) by Stephen Houlgate - An Introduction to Hegel 01
Book Reference
Houlgate,Stephen: 'An Introduction to Hegel' [Blackwell 2005], p.6
A Reaction
This is a reasonable speculation, but it makes more sense in the context of natural selection, and an empiricist theory of concepts.
Related Idea
Idea 21755 For Hegel, categories shift their form in the course of history [Hegel, by Houlgate]