Abstract

Contemporary philosophical and scientific culture is characterized by limiting conditions and bounds of various kind which conflict with the human being’s attitude and propensity to generalizing hypotheses and theories beyond the bounds of their legitimate application. Nonetheless, bounds and limits are not to be seen only as being obstacles to knowledge, but they are shown to get new intellectual possibilities off the ground by their putting aside illegitimate generalizations and substituting a new domain of differences for the latter, with the final result of enlarging the horizon of our intellectual possibilities