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"Models are not lost noumenal waifs looking for someone to name them; they are constructions within our theory itself, and they have names from birth." (Modelos não são númenos órfãos esperando batismo, são construções no nosso mundo, nomeadas desde o nascimento.)

"... 'truth' ... is as vague, interest relative, and context sensitive as _we_ are." (A verdade é tão vaga, relativa aos interesses e sensível ao contexto quanto nós somos.)

"It led me to think about questions which are thought to be more the province of 'continental philosophy' than of 'analytical philosophy', for instance, to think about the fact that our notions of rationality evolve in history ... and about the fact that one's own philosophical tradition has both a past and a future."