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A forbidden word, or a word that means one thing today and another tomorrow.

One of the challenges of the scientist is to carry out his or her work without saying a word about philosophical presuppositions in the public arena, where such talk is dangerous. Scientists are realists. Progressive politicians are nominalists. Never the twain shall meet.

Or, to put it another way, for the progressive politician, reality is a product of culture, not the other way around.

Get with the program!!!