RE: [Fis] (no subject)

> caught under similar premises to biological knowledge), from
> a >multidisciplinary perspective, I would put that 'all
> knowledge is local'
> SS: Shades of Clifford Geertz! This is a postmodern
> perspective, which denies global knowledge ideologically, and
> is related to Quine's impossibility of translation.
>

Dear Stan and colleagues,

Insofar as knowledge "is", it has to be locally. The global dimension of
knowledge remains an expectation.

With kind regards,

Loet

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Loet Leydesdorff
Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR)
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Received on Mon Jan 12 11:56:02 2004