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The Social Construction of What?

by Ian Hacking

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Laughable Loves

by Milan Kundera

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Perspectives in the Philosophy of Language: A Concise Anthology

by Robert J. Stainton

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“Because scientists are reasonable men, one or another argument will ultimately persuade many of them. But there is no single argument that can or should persuade them all. Rather than a single group conversion, what occurs is an increasing shift in the distribution of professional allegiances.”
― Thomas S. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

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“No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude.”
― Karl Popper

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“The eternal silence of these infinite spaces terrifies me”
― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

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“I never wish to be easily defined. I’d rather float over other people’s minds as something strictly fluid and non-perceivable; more like a transparent, paradoxically iridescent creature rather than an actual person.”
― Franz Kafka

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