“But if one imagines a world in which humans never appeared with their contingently evolved visual system, then there is no basis for assigning colors to any object. Why should a surface with a given surface spectral reflectance be called 'yellow'? Without reference to the particular characteristics…”— Ronald N. Giere, amazon.com
“My analysis of practice points to a situatedness and path dependence of knowledge production.”— Andrew Pickering, amazon.com