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Das Analogieproblem in seiner Bedeutung für die Naturerkenntnis

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Neglect of the problem of analogy in the modern study of the natural sciences has been partly responsible for quite far-reaching misconceptions, as is seen particularly in the attempt to introduce conceptions of life and freedom into the inorganic sphere. A critical examination of these trends of thought shows that the apparently life-like behaviour of inorganic objects (atoms, molecules) and the apparent freedom of atomic happenings, are not ontic similarities (homologues) but analogies, that is similarities which are based on no true relationship in the nature of the phenomena. An exact differentiation is possible by the “Schichtenlehre”, which is also suitable for the treatment of those border-line problems arizing in the zone of contact between the inorganic and the organic spheres of reality.