Fundamental ideas are not a consequence of experience, but a result of the particular constitution and activity of the mind, which is independent of all experience in its origin, though constantly combined with experience in its exercise. - William Whewell

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William Whewell: "Fundamental ideas are not a consequence of experience, but a result of the particular constitution and activity of the mind, which is independent of all experience in its origin, though constantly combined with experience in its exercise."

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Activity	Combined	Consequence	Constantly
Constitution	Exercise	Experience	Fundamental
Ideas	Independent	Mind	Origin
Particular	Result	Though

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