id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-9187 Johann Friedrich Herbart - Wikipedia .html text/html 6153 469 61 But an investigation of dependent lines which are often incommensurable forces us to adopt the contradictory fiction of partially overlapping, i.e. divisible points, or in other words, the conception of Continuity.[note 1] But the contradiction here is one we cannot eliminate by the method of relations, because it does not involve anything real; and in fact as a necessary outcome of an intelligible form, the fiction of continuity is valid for the objective semblance. Herbart's concept of the Real[edit] Kant believed that we become knowledgeable through studying the innate categories of thought, while Herbart believed that one learns only from studying external and real objects in the world as well as the ideas that come about from observing them. J. Davidson, A new Interpretation of Herbart's Psychology and Educational Theory through the Philosophy of Leibniz (1906) ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-9187.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-9187.txt