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Posted: 24 Apr 2019

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Gardner

Gardner
Gardeners, for example, create a peculiar micro-environment for their plants. If the gardner stops working, nature takes over. A garden is thus both natural and artificial, and it is both of these things entirely and simultaneously. It is easy to assume that the law of the excluded middle requires something to be either natural or artificial. . . . . Such activities depend on a complex collaboration between the natural and social. Thus it must be wrong to say, as Andrew Cunningham does, that science is ‘ a human activity.’ Poetry and Scrabble are nothing but human activities. Science belongs to the very extensive class of activities which combine the natural and artificial, which are constrained by both reality and culture. ~ Page 539


The INVENTION of SCIENCE

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