“Every discipline develops standards of professional competence to which its workers are subject… Every scientific community is a society in the small, so to speak, with its own agencies of social control.”

— Abraham Kaplan

Source: "The Conduct of Inquiry", p. 4.

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American philosopher 1918–1993

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