Abstract Despite its potential implications for the objectivity of scientific knowledge, claim that “scientific instruments are perspectival” has received little critical attention. I show this is best understood as highlighting dependence on different perspectives. When closely analyzed, instead constituting a novel epistemic challenge, can be exploited to mount strategies resolving two old pr...

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