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Historical Ontology

By Ian Hacking

Book information

Publisher
Harvard University Press
Year
2002
ISBN
9780674006164, 067400616X, 0674016076
Open Library ID
OL7670563M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1212333 bytes)
Pages
171\171
Topic
History
Time added
2010-08-30 15:18:36

Description

The possibilities of what can be found to be true or become true have opened up with our advance in technology. There are things that we can make true today that have never been true before. (Idea from Hacking interpreting Foucault). This might also be called Darwinizing Ontology with reference to "Darwinizing Culture: The Status of Memetics As a Science" - by Robert Aunger. So this is still one more the evolution narrative is being used to convert our previous understanding.

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