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

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

Ernst von Glasersfeld

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