Concentration

Author(s): Virchand R Gandhi
Publisher: Shardaben Chimanbhai Educational Research Centre

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Second Gateway
In hearing words we hear symbols of ideas or knowledge and in interpreting them we get further knowledge of the meaning. Interpreting symbols is the second channel of knowledge. Knowledge by communication. Astronomy, the science of heat, and such sciences are communicated through .language, but are derived first from observation, study, classification, generalisation, analysis, and synthesis.
A first sensation is a unique sensation, and is an increase of knowledge. A similar sensation is knowledge confirmed.
The scientific way of acquiring knowledge is not an artificial way.
The stages of knowledge acquired through the senses are : receive the sensation, and then compare
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