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Learning is private but inquiry is social, for it is done in some society or other. The social character of inquiry shows in our dependence upon tradition, in our need to share our questions and answers with others, and in our doing so through language and other, more primitive, modes of communication, such as gestures and calls.
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© 1983 D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland
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Bunge, M.A. (1983). Communication. In: Epistemology & Methodology I:. Treatise on Basic Philosophy, vol 5. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-7027-4_4
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