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The historical dynamic of knowledge is a permanent search for “meaning” and “objectivity”. In order to make natural phenomena intelligible, we single out objects and processes, by an active knowledge construction, within our always enriched historical experience. Yet, the scientific relevance of our endeavors towards knowledge may be analyzed and compared by making explicit the principles on which our conceptual, possibly mathematical, constructions are based.
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Longo, G., Montévil, M. (2014). Introduction. In: Perspectives on Organisms. Lecture Notes in Morphogenesis. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35938-5_1
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