4 ms·
The point of science isn't so much to product truth but to determine which truth we actually care about. So instead "science" is really a community of scienti
by micwawa 11y ago
The point of science isn't so much to product truth but to determine which truth we actually care about. So instead "science" is really a community of scientists, and in order for this to exist you have to have all the gatekeepers, in-groups and out-group, canonization, etc. Bourbaki wasn't just a group of random anonymous internet users, it was an inner circle of mathematicians who considered themselves at the center of the discipline, which is completely opposite.