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iassist-378	Bonifacio, Flavio	Numbers	2010	9	.pdf	application/pdf	6895	289	56	In these brief notes I shall explain how the idea that Numbers cannot be considered a criterion of demarcation (following what I have already discussed with regard to Popper, [Flavio Bonifacio 1996, part III]), how numbers are not more true than other representations of reality, that every statement about reality must be responsibly supported, that it is necessary to support this responsibility with an explicit agreement between the producers of the data, that this agreement must be institutionally granted, that only this agreement can make it possible not to surrender the objectivity of the measurements to the tastes of the moment. The same happens with graphics: quantities depend more on how the axes have been scaled than on real numbers (measures).	cache/iassist-378.pdf	txt/iassist-378.txt