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Any adequate philosophy of science must find a way of grappling with this central paradox of science: that men in their social activity produce knowledge which is a social product much like any other, which is no more independent of its production and the men who produce it than motor cars, armchairs or books, which has its own craftsmen, technicians, publicists, standards and skills and which is no less subject to change than any other commodity.
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dialectical universalizability, depth praxis, universal human autonomy, social cube, transformative negation, eudaimonistic society, constellational identity, multiple quadruplicity, perspectival switch, penal equation, dialectical critical realism, material transactions with nature, transfactual efficacy, dialectical universalisability, explanatory critique, ontological monovalence, referential detachment, generative separation, alethic truth, universal human flourishing, dialectical comment, experimental activity presupposes, absenting absences, consolidated belief, existential intransitivity
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Roy Bhaskar, New York, Sousa Santos, Cambridge University Press, Reclaiming Reality, New Left Review, Radical Philosophy, Andrew Collier, Anthony Giddens, Kegan Paul, Oxford University Press, Hemel Hempstead, Marx's Capital, New Jersey, Roy Edgley, The German Ideology, Third World, William Outhwaite, Blom Cooper, Harvester Wheatsheaf, Margaret Archer, Mary Hesse, Plato Etcetera, University of California Press, Ernest Gellner
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