Here I advance a viewpoint for Hans. There has been an ongoing critique of the very scientific viewpoint that you eschew -- namely the notion that there is an objective world out there that we might discover. This attack on science as it has been is known as social constructivism, and it is sorely hated by most scientists, (Social constructivism has other meanings in other fields, like architecture, but I refer only to its meaning bis-a-vis science.) It proposes that observations are taken from local perspectives -- as you do -- but it focuses ,not upon individual researchers, as you do -- but rather upon the society from within which the observations are made. Thus, modern science is taken to be an aspect, or arm, of the Global Capitalist Growth Economy, which pays for the scientific tools and work. Hence, scientists are not viewed as discovering things, but as constructing them, using the tools provided by society. So, how do you relate QBism to social constructivism? Would we be justified in viewing QBism the latest venture of constructivism?
STAN
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