Her ultimate point is that ‘truth’ is situated in and shaped by frames of experience and modes of reference. In particular she addresses how certain concepts within scientific discourse act not just ‘as passive pieces of apparatus like thermostats’, but exert an influence on the materials they examine. IN The Myths We Live By, Mary Midgley addresses the tendency to divide science from myth (and fact from story) by showing that science is not a disinterested enterprise, but an ‘ever-changing imaginative structure of ideas by which scientists continue to connect, understand and interpret’.
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