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.. in spite of the fact that it often feels as though the meaning of words and sentences were conveyed to us by the sounds of speech or the signs on a printed page, It is easy to show that meanings do not travel through space and must under all circumstances be constructed in the head of the language users.

— Ernst von Glasersfeld

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What we call knowledge does not and cannot have the purpose of producing representations of an independent reality, but instead has an adaptive function.

The history of scientific ideas shows all too blatantly that there has been no overall linear progression.

From an explorer who is condemned to seek 'structural properties' of an inaccessible reality, the experiencing organism now turns-into a builder of cognitive structures intended to solve such problems as the organism perceives.

Von Glasersfeld (1983)

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