Also known as “purpose and means”. Categories that reflect the relation between two factors peculiar to human practical and cognitive activity. It is a fundamental feature of the social movement that is peculiar to and different from the motion of matter in nature that subjects pursue intended aims with the help of certain means. The end is the result of the activity that the subject expects to achieve; the means is the tool, intermediary and method and way by which the subject achieves its end…
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