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@article{Simmel1895ThePO,
  title={The Problem of Sociology},
  author={Georg Simmel},
  journal={The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science},
  year={1895},
  volume={6},
  pages={52 - 63},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:143284719}
}

If it is true that human knowledge has evolved out of practical necessities, because knowledge of the true is a weapon in the struggle for existence, both as opposed to extra-human existence, and in the competition of human beings with one anotherit is at all events long since released from immediate dependence upon this origin. Instead of a mere means to action, knowledge has become an ultimate end (endgiiltiger Zweck). Still, cognition, even in the autonomous form of science, has not… 

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