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Knowledge, like food, can be stored—for a while. Some of it becomes stale and is eventually recognized as useless, or is no longer of interest to anyone. And whatever does stay is bound to become incorporated into more comprehensive and deeper bodies of knowledge. (Even the immortal Pythagorean theorem has become a particular case of a more general theorem in Riemannian geometry.) Therefore the investigator must be always on the run if he wishes to stay in the same place.
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Bunge, M. (1983). Epistemic Change. In: Epistemology & Methodology II: Understanding the World. Treatise on Basic Philosophy, vol 6. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-6921-7_4
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