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What guides Marxism, then, is a different model of society, and a

What guides Marxism, then, is a different model of society, and a different conception of the function of the knowledge that can be produced by society and acquired from it. – Jean-Francois Lyotard

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One can decide that the principal role of knowledge is as an indispensable element in the functioning of society, and act in accordance with that decision, only if one has already decided that society is a giant machine. – Jean-Francois Lyotard

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If we wish to discuss knowledge in the most highly developed contemporary society, we must answer the preliminary question of what methodological representation to apply to that society. – Jean-Francois Lyotard

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On the other hand, in a society whose communication component is becoming more prominent day by day, both as a reality and as an issue, it is clear that language assumes a new importance. – Jean-Francois Lyotard

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The passionate controversies of one era are viewed as sterile preoccupations by another, for knowledge alters what we seek as well as what we find. – Freda Adler

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In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance. – Henry Miller

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The true method of knowledge is experiment. – William Blake

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