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The first sort of textualist-the weak textualist-thinks that each work has its own vocabulary, its own secret code, which may not be commensurable with that of any other. (1/9)
— Richard Rorty, Consequences of Pragmatism, p. 152
— Richard Rorty, Consequences of Pragmatism, p. 152
February 4, 2026 at 6:45 AM
The first sort of textualist-the weak textualist-thinks that each work has its own vocabulary, its own secret code, which may not be commensurable with that of any other. (1/9)
— Richard Rorty, Consequences of Pragmatism, p. 152
— Richard Rorty, Consequences of Pragmatism, p. 152
Let us examine the consequences of irrationalism first. The irrationalist insists that emotions and passions rather than reason are the mainsprings of human action. (1/6)
— Karl Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies, p. 589
— Karl Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies, p. 589
February 4, 2026 at 1:45 AM
Let us examine the consequences of irrationalism first. The irrationalist insists that emotions and passions rather than reason are the mainsprings of human action. (1/6)
— Karl Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies, p. 589
— Karl Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies, p. 589
Why should the sacred character of scientific knowledge be threatened by a sociological scrutiny? … Religion is essentially a source of strength. When people communicate with their gods they are fortified, elevated and protected. (1/8)
— David Bloor, Knowledge and Social Imagery, p. 48
— David Bloor, Knowledge and Social Imagery, p. 48
February 3, 2026 at 6:51 PM
Why should the sacred character of scientific knowledge be threatened by a sociological scrutiny? … Religion is essentially a source of strength. When people communicate with their gods they are fortified, elevated and protected. (1/8)
— David Bloor, Knowledge and Social Imagery, p. 48
— David Bloor, Knowledge and Social Imagery, p. 48
There are great dangers in being aware of the shortcomings of empiricism without seeing its virtues.
— David Bloor, Knowledge and Social Imagery, p. 24
— David Bloor, Knowledge and Social Imagery, p. 24
February 3, 2026 at 12:51 PM
There are great dangers in being aware of the shortcomings of empiricism without seeing its virtues.
— David Bloor, Knowledge and Social Imagery, p. 24
— David Bloor, Knowledge and Social Imagery, p. 24
The cyborg is a creature in a post-gender world; it has no truck with bisexuality, pre-oedipal symbiosis, unalienated labour, or other seductions to organic wholeness through a final appropriation of all the powers of the parts into a higher... (1/3)
— Donna Haraway, A Cyborg Manifesto, p. 201
— Donna Haraway, A Cyborg Manifesto, p. 201
February 3, 2026 at 6:44 AM
The cyborg is a creature in a post-gender world; it has no truck with bisexuality, pre-oedipal symbiosis, unalienated labour, or other seductions to organic wholeness through a final appropriation of all the powers of the parts into a higher... (1/3)
— Donna Haraway, A Cyborg Manifesto, p. 201
— Donna Haraway, A Cyborg Manifesto, p. 201
Some differences are playful; some are poles of world historical systems of domination. 'Epistemology' is about knowing the difference.
— Donna Haraway, A Cyborg Manifesto, p. 215
— Donna Haraway, A Cyborg Manifesto, p. 215
February 3, 2026 at 1:50 AM
Some differences are playful; some are poles of world historical systems of domination. 'Epistemology' is about knowing the difference.
— Donna Haraway, A Cyborg Manifesto, p. 215
— Donna Haraway, A Cyborg Manifesto, p. 215
Within positions founded upon a claim of being ‘born this way’, one finds supposedly in-built characteristics leveraged as a kind of transcendental guarantee: ‘we are told to seek solace in unfreedom [. . .] (1/7)
— Helen Hester, Xenofeminism, p. 21
— Helen Hester, Xenofeminism, p. 21
February 2, 2026 at 12:51 PM
Within positions founded upon a claim of being ‘born this way’, one finds supposedly in-built characteristics leveraged as a kind of transcendental guarantee: ‘we are told to seek solace in unfreedom [. . .] (1/7)
— Helen Hester, Xenofeminism, p. 21
— Helen Hester, Xenofeminism, p. 21
ther than seeing only the expansion-and-conquest strategies of relentless individuals, we must look for histories that develop through contamination.
— Anna Tsing, The Mushroom at the End of the World, p. 550
— Anna Tsing, The Mushroom at the End of the World, p. 550
February 2, 2026 at 6:58 AM
ther than seeing only the expansion-and-conquest strategies of relentless individuals, we must look for histories that develop through contamination.
— Anna Tsing, The Mushroom at the End of the World, p. 550
— Anna Tsing, The Mushroom at the End of the World, p. 550
Heidegger's hope is just what was worst in the tradition -the quest for the holy which turns us away from the relations between beings and beings (the relations, for example, between the ghastly apparatus of modern technology and the... (1/5)
— Richard Rorty, Consequences of Pragmatism, p. 53
— Richard Rorty, Consequences of Pragmatism, p. 53
February 2, 2026 at 1:51 AM
Heidegger's hope is just what was worst in the tradition -the quest for the holy which turns us away from the relations between beings and beings (the relations, for example, between the ghastly apparatus of modern technology and the... (1/5)
— Richard Rorty, Consequences of Pragmatism, p. 53
— Richard Rorty, Consequences of Pragmatism, p. 53
The tone and style of Popper's philosophy is an important part of its overall message. This tone is in part provided by the key metaphors which are used. The image of Darwinian struggle is prominent. (1/7)
— David Bloor, Knowledge and Social Imagery, p. 56
— David Bloor, Knowledge and Social Imagery, p. 56
February 1, 2026 at 6:29 PM
The tone and style of Popper's philosophy is an important part of its overall message. This tone is in part provided by the key metaphors which are used. The image of Darwinian struggle is prominent. (1/7)
— David Bloor, Knowledge and Social Imagery, p. 56
— David Bloor, Knowledge and Social Imagery, p. 56
Thus we can say that we owe our reason, like our language, to intercourse with other men. The fact that the rationalist attitude considers the argument rather than the person arguing is of far-reaching importance. (1/3)
— Karl Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies, p. 579
— Karl Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies, p. 579
February 1, 2026 at 12:40 PM
Thus we can say that we owe our reason, like our language, to intercourse with other men. The fact that the rationalist attitude considers the argument rather than the person arguing is of far-reaching importance. (1/3)
— Karl Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies, p. 579
— Karl Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies, p. 579
Our "irreverence" or "lack of respect" for science is not intended as an attack on scientific activity. It is simply that we maintain an agnostic position. (1/4)
— Bruno Latour & Steve Woolgar, Laboratory Life, p. 36
— Bruno Latour & Steve Woolgar, Laboratory Life, p. 36
February 1, 2026 at 6:43 AM
Our "irreverence" or "lack of respect" for science is not intended as an attack on scientific activity. It is simply that we maintain an agnostic position. (1/4)
— Bruno Latour & Steve Woolgar, Laboratory Life, p. 36
— Bruno Latour & Steve Woolgar, Laboratory Life, p. 36
It would be generally admitted that territorial boundaries have the status of social conventions, though this does not mean that they are 'mere' or 'arbitrary' conventions. (1/5)
— David Bloor, Knowledge and Social Imagery, p. 97
— David Bloor, Knowledge and Social Imagery, p. 97
February 1, 2026 at 1:59 AM
It would be generally admitted that territorial boundaries have the status of social conventions, though this does not mean that they are 'mere' or 'arbitrary' conventions. (1/5)
— David Bloor, Knowledge and Social Imagery, p. 97
— David Bloor, Knowledge and Social Imagery, p. 97
Freud's unconscious is not at all the romantic unconscious of imaginative creation. It is not the locus of the divinities of night.
— Jacques Lacan, The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis, p. 24
— Jacques Lacan, The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis, p. 24
January 31, 2026 at 6:26 PM
Freud's unconscious is not at all the romantic unconscious of imaginative creation. It is not the locus of the divinities of night.
— Jacques Lacan, The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis, p. 24
— Jacques Lacan, The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis, p. 24
… our thinking about mathematics is poised on a knife-edge. By adopting a formal, either/or attitude, it can be made to look as if there are no significant sources of variation within mathematics which require explanation. (1/5)
— David Bloor, Knowledge and Social Imagery, p. 120
— David Bloor, Knowledge and Social Imagery, p. 120
January 31, 2026 at 12:38 PM
… our thinking about mathematics is poised on a knife-edge. By adopting a formal, either/or attitude, it can be made to look as if there are no significant sources of variation within mathematics which require explanation. (1/5)
— David Bloor, Knowledge and Social Imagery, p. 120
— David Bloor, Knowledge and Social Imagery, p. 120
The smell of matsutake transformed me in a physical way. The first time I cooked them, they ruined an otherwise lovely stir-fry. The smell was overwhelming. (1/9)
— Anna Tsing, The Mushroom at the End of the World, p. 808
— Anna Tsing, The Mushroom at the End of the World, p. 808
January 31, 2026 at 6:33 AM
The smell of matsutake transformed me in a physical way. The first time I cooked them, they ruined an otherwise lovely stir-fry. The smell was overwhelming. (1/9)
— Anna Tsing, The Mushroom at the End of the World, p. 808
— Anna Tsing, The Mushroom at the End of the World, p. 808
The imagined 'they' constitute a kind of invisible conspiracy of masculinist scientists and philosophers replete with grants and laboratories; and the imagined 'we' are the embodied others, who are not allowed not to have a body, a finite... (1/2)
— Donna Haraway, Situated Knowledges, p. 244
— Donna Haraway, Situated Knowledges, p. 244
January 31, 2026 at 1:41 AM
The imagined 'they' constitute a kind of invisible conspiracy of masculinist scientists and philosophers replete with grants and laboratories; and the imagined 'we' are the embodied others, who are not allowed not to have a body, a finite... (1/2)
— Donna Haraway, Situated Knowledges, p. 244
— Donna Haraway, Situated Knowledges, p. 244
Circumstances (that which stands around) have generally been considered irrelevant to the practice of science. Our argument could be summarised as an attempt to demonstrate their relevance. (1/3)
— Bruno Latour & Steve Woolgar, Laboratory Life, p. 276
— Bruno Latour & Steve Woolgar, Laboratory Life, p. 276
January 30, 2026 at 6:36 PM
Circumstances (that which stands around) have generally been considered irrelevant to the practice of science. Our argument could be summarised as an attempt to demonstrate their relevance. (1/3)
— Bruno Latour & Steve Woolgar, Laboratory Life, p. 276
— Bruno Latour & Steve Woolgar, Laboratory Life, p. 276
“The urge to make philosophy into Philosophy is to make it the search for some final vocabulary, which can somehow be known in advance to be the common core, the truth of, all the other vocabularies which might be advanced in its... (1/2)
— Richard Rorty, Consequences of Pragmatism, p. xlii
— Richard Rorty, Consequences of Pragmatism, p. xlii
January 30, 2026 at 12:44 PM
“The urge to make philosophy into Philosophy is to make it the search for some final vocabulary, which can somehow be known in advance to be the common core, the truth of, all the other vocabularies which might be advanced in its... (1/2)
— Richard Rorty, Consequences of Pragmatism, p. xlii
— Richard Rorty, Consequences of Pragmatism, p. xlii
They all divide behaviour or belief into two types: right and wrong, true or false, rational or irrational. They then invoke sociological or psychological causes to explain the negative side of the division. (1/3)
— David Bloor, Knowledge and Social Imagery, p. 9
— David Bloor, Knowledge and Social Imagery, p. 9
January 30, 2026 at 6:42 AM
They all divide behaviour or belief into two types: right and wrong, true or false, rational or irrational. They then invoke sociological or psychological causes to explain the negative side of the division. (1/3)
— David Bloor, Knowledge and Social Imagery, p. 9
— David Bloor, Knowledge and Social Imagery, p. 9
And Hegel proves again that this present Prussia is the pinnacle and the stronghold and the goal of freedom. (1/9)
— Karl Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies, p. 367
— Karl Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies, p. 367
January 30, 2026 at 1:45 AM
And Hegel proves again that this present Prussia is the pinnacle and the stronghold and the goal of freedom. (1/9)
— Karl Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies, p. 367
— Karl Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies, p. 367
Mathematics like morality is designed to meet the requirements of people who hold a great deal in common in their physiology and in their physical environment. (1/2)
— David Bloor, Knowledge and Social Imagery, p. 109
— David Bloor, Knowledge and Social Imagery, p. 109
January 29, 2026 at 6:38 PM
Mathematics like morality is designed to meet the requirements of people who hold a great deal in common in their physiology and in their physical environment. (1/2)
— David Bloor, Knowledge and Social Imagery, p. 109
— David Bloor, Knowledge and Social Imagery, p. 109
“On the pragmatist's account, positivism was only a halfway stage in the development of such a culture-the progress toward, as Sartre puts it, doing without God. (1/4)
— Richard Rorty, Consequences of Pragmatism, p. xliii-b
— Richard Rorty, Consequences of Pragmatism, p. xliii-b
January 29, 2026 at 12:48 PM
“On the pragmatist's account, positivism was only a halfway stage in the development of such a culture-the progress toward, as Sartre puts it, doing without God. (1/4)
— Richard Rorty, Consequences of Pragmatism, p. xliii-b
— Richard Rorty, Consequences of Pragmatism, p. xliii-b
He is suggesting how things might look if we did not have Kantian philosophy built into the fabric of our intellectual life, as his predecessors suggested how things might look if we did not have religion built into the fabric of our... (1/6)
— Richard Rorty, Consequences of Pragmatism, p. 99
— Richard Rorty, Consequences of Pragmatism, p. 99
January 29, 2026 at 6:41 AM
He is suggesting how things might look if we did not have Kantian philosophy built into the fabric of our intellectual life, as his predecessors suggested how things might look if we did not have religion built into the fabric of our... (1/6)
— Richard Rorty, Consequences of Pragmatism, p. 99
— Richard Rorty, Consequences of Pragmatism, p. 99
Now, we begin to spot this common core as soon as we take an interest in expressions such as "acting in keeping with one's nature," or in the classic line about living "according to one's true nature." (1/2)
— Bruno Latour, Facing Gaia, p. 29
— Bruno Latour, Facing Gaia, p. 29
January 29, 2026 at 1:44 AM
Now, we begin to spot this common core as soon as we take an interest in expressions such as "acting in keeping with one's nature," or in the classic line about living "according to one's true nature." (1/2)
— Bruno Latour, Facing Gaia, p. 29
— Bruno Latour, Facing Gaia, p. 29