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Single Idea 24492

[catalogued under 14. Science / B. Scientific Theories / 1. Scientific Theory]

Full Idea

Science is to be conceived as a project of domestication in which wild things and processes are altered, reconstructed, so that they are knowable and usable for some people's purposes.

Gist of Idea

Science consists entirely of conceptually moulding nature to suit human purposes

Source

Mazviita Chirimuuta (The Brain Abstracted [2024], 2.2)

A Reaction

She seems to think that purely disintested truth-seeking is either non-existent or totally hopeless, which I take to be false. Nevertheless there is obviously a great deal of truth in her claim. I am surprised that she never once mentions Peirce.

Book Reference

Mazviita Chirimuuta: 'The Brain Abstracted' [MIT 2024], p.52