And refutation indeed Lenin gave Bogdanov. For example, > > Matter is that which, acting upon our sense-organs, produces sensation; > matter is the objective reality given to us in sensation, and so forth. > Bogdanov ... is indignant at such definitions, which, don’t you see, > “prove to be simple repetitions” of the “formula” ... that for one trend > in philosophy matter is primary and spirit secondary, while for the other > trend the reverse is the case. All the Russian Machians exultantly echo > Bogdanov’s “refutation"! But ... it is impossible, in the very nature of > the case, to give any definition of these two ultimate concepts of > epistemology save one that indicates which of them is taken as primary. > >
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