Categories such as time, space, cause, and number

"Categories such as time, space, cause, and number represent the most general relations which exist between things; surpassing all our other ideas in extension, they dominate all the details of our intellectual life. If humankind did not agree upon these essential ideas at every moment, if they did not have the same conception of time, space, cause, and number, all contact between their minds would be impossible..."

- Émile Durkheim (1912) (@Wikipedia), Le formes elementaires de la vie religieuse

Found on page 122 in Edward Tufte's "Beautiful Evidence"

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