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==The Cactus Language : Mechanics==
 
==The Cactus Language : Mechanics==
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| We are only now beginning to see how this works.  Clearly one of the
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| mechanisms for picking a reality is the sociohistorical sense of what
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| knowledge, seems most fundamental, most productive, most penetrating.
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| The very judgments which make us push narrowly forward simultaneously
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| where the lesson is plain to find, we often fail to imagine ourselves
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| in a parallel situation.  We ascribe the differences in world view
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| Herbert J. Bernstein, "Idols", page 38.
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| Herbert J. Bernstein,
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|"Idols of Modern Science & The Reconstruction of Knowledge", pages 37-68 in:
   
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| Marcus G. Raskin & Herbert J. Bernstein,
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<p>We are only now beginning to see how this works. Clearly one of the mechanisms for picking a reality is the sociohistorical sense of what is important &mdash; which research program, with all its particularity of knowledge, seems most fundamental, most productive, most penetrating. The very judgments which make us push narrowly forward simultaneously make us forget how little we know.  And when we look back at history, where the lesson is plain to find, we often fail to imagine ourselves in a parallel situation.  We ascribe the differences in world view to error, rather than to unexamined but consistent and internally justified choice.</p>
|'New Ways of Knowing: The Sciences, Society, & Reconstructive Knowledge',
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| Rowman & Littlefield, Totowa, NJ, 1987.
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| align="right" | &mdash; Herbert J. Bernstein, "Idols of Modern Science", [HJB, 38]
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In this Subsection, I discuss the "mechanics" of parsing the
 
In this Subsection, I discuss the "mechanics" of parsing the
 
cactus language into the corresponding class of computational
 
cactus language into the corresponding class of computational
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