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What does the Wikipedia know, and how can it know it? More to the point, how can anyone using an anonymously edited source, the contents of which change on a daily basis, know that what they are reading constitutes knowledge? In this provocative challenge to contemporary concepts of objectivity, four figures of knowledge - the Wikipedia, scientific experiments, anonymous peer review, and school education - are investigated in order to question the way we understand the world around us.

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  • ISBN-13: 9781365298523
  • ISBN-10: 1365298523
  • Publisher: Lulu.com
  • Publish Date: September 2016
  • Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.28 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.4 pounds
  • Page Count: 116

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