Construction Quote by Clifford Geertz

“What we call our data are really our own constructions of other people’s constructions of what they and their compatriots are up to.” quote by Clifford Geertz — Download Open image

“What we call our data are really our own constructions of other people’s constructions of what they and their compatriots are up to.”

Clifford Geertz

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The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it is that we are persuasive.

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“But the secret of good writing is to strip every sentence to its cleanest components. Every words that serves no function, every long word that could be a short word, every adverb that carries the same meaning that's already in the verb, every passive construction that leaves the reader unsure of who is doing what--these are the thousand and one…

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“Over 275,000 people had signed to end the construction of the TMT telescope at the Mauna Kea Observatories (MKO) by week 20 of the protest.”

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Philosophical knowledge is the knowledge gained by reason from concepts ; mathematical knowledge is the knowledge gained by reason from the construction of concepts.

Immanuel Kant