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That the instrument is an element within contemporary scientific inquiry and that it occupies some type of crucial mediational position upon the intentional arc has now been shown. But if contemporary science is embodied through its technics a question can arise as to whether instruments play any deeper, reflexive role for the formation and development of subsequent inquiry. The question itself can be put simply: once having begun an inquiry through and with instruments, does the range of instrumental capacities incline the inquiry in certain rather than other directions?
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Ihde, D. (1979). A Phenomenology of Instrumentation. In: Technics and Praxis. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol 24. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9900-8_4
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