This document discusses how concepts that are useful for organizing information can take on too much authority if we forget where they came from. We may view them as immutable facts rather than ideas developed for a specific purpose or time. This can block scientific progress if we refuse to reexamine established concepts. It is important to analyze familiar ideas and understand the conditions when they are useful versus when they may no longer apply.

1. Introduction Socio-political Aspects of Business

2. Albert Einstein Concepts which have proved useful for ordering things easily assume so great an authority over us, that we forget their terrestrial origin and accept them as unalterable facts . They then become labeled as 'conceptual necessities', 'apriori solutions', etc. The road to scientific progress is frequently blocked for long periods by such errors. It is therefore not just an idle game to exercise our ability to analyze familiar concepts , and to demonstrate the conditions on which this justification of their usefulness depends.