Word: knower
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This prediction led Oppenheimer to state that man, in studying himself, will be forced to accept a "partial order," realizing that the very "character of the knower determines what, how, and how much he knows...
...Knowledge involves the knower in a completely decisive way," he told his audience. Man, by choosing a particular path to some kind of knowledge, immediately excludes certain parts of the very knowledge for which he is seeking...