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==The Cactus Patch==
==The Cactus Patch==
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<p>Thus, what looks to us like a sphere of scientific knowledge more accurately should be represented as the inside of a highly irregular and spiky object, like a pincushion or porcupine, with very sharp extensions in certain directions, and virtually no knowledge in immediately adjacent areas. If our intellectual gaze could shift slightly, it would alter each quill's direction, and suddenly our entire reality would change.</p>
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| align="right" | — Herbert J. Bernstein, "Idols of Modern Science", [HJB, 38]
| Marcus G. Raskin & Herbert J. Bernstein,
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| Rowman & Littlefield, Totowa, NJ, 1987.
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In this and the four subsections that follow, I describe a calculus for
In this and the four subsections that follow, I describe a calculus for
representing propositions as sentences, in other words, as syntactically
representing propositions as sentences, in other words, as syntactically
Which was to be shown.
Which was to be shown.
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==References==
* Bernstein, Herbert J. (1987), "Idols of Modern Science and The Reconstruction of Knowledge", pp. 37-68 in Marcus G. Raskin and Herbert J. Bernstein, ''New Ways of Knowing : The Sciences, Society, and Reconstructive Knowledge', Rowman and Littlefield, Totowa, NJ, 1987.
* Raskin, Marcus G., and Bernstein, Herbert J. (1987, eds.), ''New Ways of Knowing : The Sciences, Society, and Reconstructive Knowledge', Rowman and Littlefield, Totowa, NJ, 1987.
==Document History==
==Document History==
