Volume 18 · Number 1 ·
Pages 083–085
The Distinctions We Make as Observers Affect Theory Adequacy
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Abstract
Open peer commentary on the article “Maturanian Observer-Dependent Immunology” by Nelson Monteiro Vaz. Abstract: Failure to understand the subject-dependent nature of science as a cognitive domain defined by descriptions that researchers make in language as observers affects the adequacy of scientific theories.
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Kravchenko A. V. (2022) The distinctions we make as observers affect theory adequacy. Constructivist Foundations 18(1): 083–085. https://constructivist.info/18/1/083
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