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Ernst von Glasersfeld, who founded radical constructivism (RC) in the 1970s, is clearly on Kuhn's side

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.. in spite of the fact that it often feels as though the meaning of words and sentences were conveyed to us by the sounds of speech or the signs on a printed page, It is easy to show that meanings do not travel through space and must under all circumstances be constructed in the head of the language users.

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From an explorer who is condemned to seek 'structural properties' of an inaccessible reality, the experiencing organism now turns-into a builder of cognitive structures intended to solve such problems as the organism perceives.

Ernst von Glasersfeld

What we call knowledge does not and cannot have the purpose of producing representations of an independent reality, but instead has an adaptive function.

Ernst von Glasersfeld

The "second order cyberneticians" claimed that knowledge is a biological phenomenon (Maturana, 1970), that each individual constructs his or her own "reality" (Foerster, 1973) and that knowledge "fits" but does not "match" the world of experience (von Glasersfeld, 1987).

Ernst von Glasersfeld

Ernst von Glasersfeld

Ernst von Glasersfeld

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Born: March 8, 1917

Died: November 12, 2010 (aged 93)

Bio: Ernst von Glasersfeld was a German philosopher, and Emeritus Professor of Psychology at the University of Georgia.

Known for:

Radical constructivism (1995)
Key Works in Radical Constructivism (2007)
The construction of knowledge (1987)

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