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We can get no nearer to ‘reality’ than the mental representations we make of it. And those mental representations will derive to a large extent from our cultural endowment, from the Weltanschauungen we learn to adopt — and do not question — through our membership of specific social groups and of a specific society.
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Checkland, P. (1985). The Approach to Plural Rationality through Soft Systems Methodology. In: Grauer, M., Thompson, M., Wierzbicki, A.P. (eds) Plural Rationality and Interactive Decision Processes. Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems, vol 248. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-02432-4_1
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