Does "The Knowing" Alter "The Known"? On the Troublesome Relation of Facts and Ideas in a Deweyan Epistemology
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In the process that has come to be called the "construction of knowledge," what is it, exactly, that gets made? How much control over the product do the "constructors" actually have? And to what extent is that which is "known," i.e., the product of the inquiry, dependent upon that which is outside the control of the knowledge seekers? One might take it that the pragmatic view on these matters could be readily summed up, in the following, simplified, theses:
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تاریخ انتشار 2011