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Theory of Symbols

An epistemological theory in opposition to the materialist theory of reflection. It advocates that man’s sensations and ideas are not copies of things in the external world, but only signs, symbols, hieroglyphs that have no similarity or equivalence to what they represent in the external world, which leads to agnosticism and idealism…

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