"The world does not change, but we work in a new world. The world that does not change is a world of individuals. The world in and with which we work is a world of kinds. The latter changes; the former does not. After a scientific revolution, the scientist works in a world of new kinds."
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Ian Hacking, "Working in a New World: the Taxonomic Solution" in Paul Horwich (Ed.), World Changes: Thomas Kuhn and the Nature of Science (1993)
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