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The most crucial problem with intellectual learning is that it receives the unknown on the grounds of the known.

Raheel Farooq

The most crucial problem with intellectual learning is that it receives the unknown on the grounds of the known.

Tags: epistemology, intellect, intuition, knowledge, learning, philosophy

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