terça-feira, 27 de novembro de 2018



Progress is a noxious, culturally embedded, untestable, nonoperational, intractable idea that must be replaced if we wish to understand the patterns of history.


@ Gould, Stephen Jay, «On replacing the idea of progress with an operational notion of directionality», in Nitecki M (ed.), Evolutionary Progress, 1988, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 319-338.