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interlacing

📖 Definitions

"Scientific perspectives ‘interlace’ in the sense that without ever losing their historical and cultural identity, they nevertheless collectively feed into cosmopolitan knowledge. [...] ‘interlacing’ captures how historically a number of situated scientific perspectives have encountered and traded with one another some of their tools, instruments and techniques. As a result of these encounters and trades, some of these tools changed their use, so that tracking the particular history of any such tool via interlaced scientific perspectives becomes a way of tracking the evolution of knowledge concerning particular phenomena elicited by that tool" (Massimi 2022, 339-40).

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📚 References

  • Massimi, Michela. 2022. Perspectival Realism. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197555620.001.0001