No general description of the mode of advance of human knowledge can be
just which leaves out of account the social aspect of knowledge. That is of
its very essence. What a thing society is! The workingman, with his trade
union, knows that. Men and women moving in polite society understand it,
still better. But Bohemians, like me, whose work is done in solitude, are
apt to forget that not only is a man as a whole little better than a brute
in solitude, but also that everything that bears any important meaning to
him must receive its interpretation from social considerations.
-- C.S.Peirce MS 1573.273
-- David McFadzean david@lucifer.com Memetic Engineer http://www.lucifer.com/~david/ Church of Virus http://www.lucifer.com/virus/