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Revisiting On Practice

Red Menace

CHAPTER

Maw's Theory of Knowledge

Mau argues that the validity of our thought can only be determined through practice. If a man wants to succeed in his work, he must bring his ideas into correspondence with the laws of the objective world. After he fails, he draws hislessons, corrects his ideas and then uses them again. This is when what is meant by failure is the mother of success.

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