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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Language: | English |
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Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
2016-12-01
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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 |