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Jean-François Lyotard

“Knowledge [savoir] in general cannot be reduced to science, nor even to learning [connaissance]. Learning is the set of statements which, to the exclusion of all other statements, denote or describe objects and may be declared true or false. Science is a subset of learning. It is also composed of denotative statements, but imposes two supplementary conditions on their acceptability: the objects to which they refer must be available for repeated access, in other words, they must be accessible in explicit conditions of observation; and it must be possible to decide whether or not a given statement pertains to the language judged relevant by the experts.”

Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge
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The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge by Jean-François Lyotard
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