The Mythical Fact

What is scientific in a postmodern view, is not facts, but theories. Facts are not collected passively, but only obtained by designing tools and protocols, and through careful experiments. They are subject to interpretation, and should thus be presented as part of graphs of representations, together with the theories, the models, the descriptions of the experiments and the tools, the history of previous attempts and failures, the analysis of competing activity, etc.

All this information is highly dynamic, volatile, and even conflicting. It needs to be managed.

-- MarcGirod - 27 Dec 2007