Ludwik Fleck's 'active' and 'passive' elements of knowledge revisited

A curious feature of medical literature on the evaluation of diagnostic accuracy is the frequent deployment of circular arguments. Using a case study from the medical literature on the diagnosis of child abuse, I argue that this occurs because researchers fail to distinguish what Ludwik Fleck called...

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Main Author: Nicholas Roy Biney
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais 2016-12-01
Series:Transversal: International Journal for the Historiography of Science
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Online Access:http://www.historiographyofscience.org/index.php/transversal/article/view/18/26