The Vocation of Man

At this point, I believe I know a good
portion of the world that surrounds me;
and I have indeed devoted enough effort and
care to this task. I have placed my trust only
in the consistent testimony of my senses,
only in constant experience; I have touched
what I beheld, and I have analyzed The original German "zerlegt" suggests a process of taking things apart or decomposing them to understand their structure.
what I had touched; I have repeated my
observations, and repeated them again and again;
I have compared the various phenomena phenomena: events or objects as they are perceived by the senses rather than as they might exist independently
with one another; and only after I perceived
their exact connection The term used here is "Zusammenhang," referring to the systematic way things hang together or their internal coherence., after I could
explain and derive one from the other, and [predict] the result