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knowledge and power  

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  • The relationship between knowledge and power has been an object of philosophical and scientific inquiry at least since the times of the ancient Greeks. In principle, one can distinguish two different ways of understanding this relationship. [Source: Encyclopedia of Power; Knowledge and Power]

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