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Bernard Williams on Truth

1929–2003 England

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A further turn is to be found in some "unmasking" accounts of natural science, which aim to show that its pretensions to deliver the truth are unfounded, because of social forces that control its activities. Unlike the case of history, these do not use truths of the same kind; they do not apply science to the criticism of science. They apply the social sciences, and typically depend on the remarkable assumption that the sociology of knowledge is in a better position to deliver truth about science than science is to deliver truth about the world.

Truth and Truthfulness (2002)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Bernard Williams (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.