“The complexity of the connection between the world of perception and the world of physics does not preclude that such a connection can be shown to exist at any time.”

—  Max Horkheimer

Source: "The Latest Attack on Metaphysics" (1937), p. 133.

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German philosopher and sociologist 1895–1973

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