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The knowable world is incomplete if seen from any one point of view, incoherent if seen from all points of view at once, and empty if seen from nowhere in particular.
Richard Shweder
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Richard Shweder
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: February 17
Anthropologist
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New York
United States
Richard A. Shweder
Richard Allan Shweder
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