“By now it may be clear that the position I'm developing is a sort of post-Darwinian Kantianism.”

— Thomas Kuhn

Source: The Road Since Structure (2002), p. 104; from "The Road since Structure" (1990)

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American historian, physicist and philosopher 1922–1996

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