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Levinson, Paul – 1983
Technology contributes to the growth of human knowledge in five distinct, though overlapping, ways: (1) all technologies are material embodiments and thus more or less durable records of ideas that have survived some test with external reality; (2) telescopes, microscopes, and similar technologies extend external experience and knowledge to areas…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Epistemology, Evolution, Information Dissemination