Risk-free learner (84)'s status on Sunday, 06-Jan-13 01:15:36 UTC
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'For the past half century it has been largely agreed that one cannot observe without prior theory. This is rarely explicated, however, and there seems to be some ambiguity in the claims made. So I will do a rough taxonomy of the TDOT. When N. R. Hanson introduced the claim it was this: Weak TDOT: “There is a sense, then, in which seeing is a ‘theory-laden’ undertaking. Observation of x is shaped by prior knowledge of x.” (Hanson 1958:19)'
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