The scientific image twenty years later

Philosophical Studies 106 (1-2):107 - 122 (2001)
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Abstract

What we represent to ourselves behind the appear- ances exists only in our understanding . . . [having] only the value of memoria technica or formula whose form, because it is arbitrary and irrelevant, varies . . . with the standpoint of our culture.

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