bryankam ,
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You can tell is thinking of , PI here: "to imagine a language means to imagine a form of life." This is from "Scientific Knowledge as Historical Product," 1977, first essay in The Essential Tension and also in The Last Writings of Thomas S. Kuhn.

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Image of quote from The Last Writings of Thomas S. Kuhn. > A scientist must accept a great many of the current knowledge claims of his community, for they are constitutive of the community’s practice, of the form of life, that is, of an enduring tribe. To refuse to accept them would be to decline membership in that tribe and thus to refuse the practice of science. Though there is a great deal about which members of an individual tribe—physicists or chemists, for example—may disagree, those very disagreements are made possible, recognizable, and discussable only by the far larger body of beliefs that members share, beliefs that unite them as members of a single tribe. That much of their body of belief[s] is simply among the givens of a given time. Discovering those givens is what the historian must do to recapture the integrity of an older mode of thought. If more time were now available to discover how the historian does so, phrases like “constitutive of the community’s practice” would come to seem less like mere bits of incantation.
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