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By Martin Kusch

Martin Kusch places forth arguable rules: that wisdom is a social prestige (like cash or marriage) and that wisdom is basically the ownership of teams instead of contributors. He defends the novel implications of his perspectives: that wisdom is political, and that it varies with groups. This daring method of epistemology is a problem to philosophy and the broader educational international.

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