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Number as a Second-Order Concept
Science in Context 9 (2):139-149 (1996)
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My contribution will focus on a central issue of Yehuda Elkana's anthropology of knowledge — namely, the role of reflectivity in the development of knowledge. Let me therefore start with a quotation from Yehuda's paper “Experiment as a Second-Order Concept.”Other Versions
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