Far away he observed all the things "talks over the human being's externalobservation of the things and their changing laws."
“远取诸物”讲的是向外对事物本身变化规律的观察与认识。
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But this approach presupposed the distinction between observation sentences and non-observation sentences in a language, and observation sentences are evidence for knowledge of external world.
Emerson acknowledged understanding derived from observation of external phenomena, but believed that the more important truths are eternal and intuitive, emerging from within.