網絡上可以找到許多介紹 Thomas Samuel Kuhn 寫的 The Structure of Scientific Revolutions，這是他的科學理論的經典著作，幾乎是研究「社會與科學」的人都必讀的東西。這本書所說的，最主要是科學的發展與人類社會發展之間的關係。科學的發展絕非偶然，而是社會發展到了某個程度的必然；至於社會為何會選擇這樣的科學而非那樣的科學，這就是 Thomas S. Kuhn 所探討的「相對性」。
It's all right that the "understanding is sensitive to the implicit assumptions of scientists." That was why I put a "之" in my last version to avoid misunderstanding.
Sensitive / sensitivity: refers to whether or to what extent something can detect changes / particular qualities of interest in something else (my working definition)… But it doesn’t necessarily translates into 敏锐/敏感… (the first one would be an overstatement)
Implicit assumption – an assumption that works without being explicitly / expressively stated:
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