The Architectonics of Scientific Knowledge an Essay On the Dynamics of the Sciences

Diogenes 33 (131):1-23 (1985)
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I. Science, myth, magic: three components of knowledge, in other words three types of activity in man who, in interaction with his surrounding environment seeks to accomodate himself to the constraints which this environment imposes on him while at the same time seeing to his own immediate or far-reaching needs.

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