A scientific framework’s presuppositions are culturally and historically conditioned

Evidence

But would he have deferred to Coon? No way. He would have had to say something along the lines of “I’m not going to argue with you in that language, using those tools; there are a wider set of issues at stake here, and I strongly suspect that, in ways you don’t even understand, the whole UNIVERSE of the analysis you are using—the presuppositions, the questions, the framings and definitions—is itself the product of a history and a culture that totally condition and even, I suspect, determine your findings.” — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 148

Categorization

• DEFINE: This crisply encapsulates the manifestos’ diagnostic claim that the entire analytic frame (its presuppositions, questions, framing) is itself a cultural artifact — the argumentative move at the heart of the human-fracking thesis.
• QUESTION: Is this one-sided — does every scientific framework reduce to cultural conditioning, or only some? Worth pressing against the manifesto’s own bet.
• XREF: connects to: Scientific reason is the methodology of a pre-given historical reality. — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 600; Objectivity of concepts rests on a collective historical subject — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 764; Cultural imperialism is driven by science’s demand for legitimation, not by material conquest — Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on…, 235 (+8 more)