Within, each individual text there is a similar process as earlier concrete reference is compacted and abstracted in the unfolding of the article’s argument, where events turn into phenomena into conceptualized processes. Thus each article also projects a conceptual landscape populated by nominal objects constructed in the course of the text. Moreover, both historically and in individual texts, these objects become arrayed in taxonomies dividing up the conceptual landscape into discrete technical objects, whose definitions are linked through their abstract relations. (p.20)

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Perhaps the very success of scientific representations has suppressed awareness of language in the production of scientific knowledge, for scientific knowledge seems to be cast in naturally authoritative forms, unthinkable in any alternative representation. (p.15)

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