Abstract

For several decades in the twentieth century traditional knowledge was compared and set apart from science. The criterion was rationality, which Hilbert, Carnap, and the Vienna Circle sought to establish as the basis and preserve of Science. Although Godel proved such an objective to be unattainable as early as 1931, it was only around the 1960s that philosophy of science definitively acknowledged it. As a consequence, anthropology went on comparing the systems of knowledge that it described...

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