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A question is by definition something that comes before an answer. If it is not, it is rather, a proposition. All knowledge starts from a question bordering on unknown territory. If that territory is already known the case is, so to speak, closed. To paraphrase Richard Rorty (1980) science has through history tried to close the case, to find the final truth. Every such attempt, though, has later been proved to be wrong. Two things follow from this.
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Säfström, C.A. (2012). Urgently in Need of a Different Story. In: Goodson, I.F., Loveless, A.M., Stephens, D. (eds) Explorations in Narrative Research. Studies in Professional Life and Work, vol 6. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-988-6_2
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