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1.3.10.8 The Cactus Patch

| Thus, what looks to us like a sphere of scientific knowledge more accurately
| should be represented as the inside of a highly irregular and spiky object,
| like a pincushion or porcupine, with very sharp extensions in certain
| directions, and virtually no knowledge in immediately adjacent areas.
| If our intellectual gaze could shift slightly, it would alter each
| quill's direction, and suddenly our entire reality would change.
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| Herbert J. Bernstein, "Idols", page 38.
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| Herbert J. Bernstein,
|"Idols of Modern Science & The Reconstruction of Knowledge", pages 37-68 in:
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| Marcus G. Raskin & Herbert J. Bernstein,
|'New Ways of Knowing:  The Sciences, Society, & Reconstruct