@misc{cogprints313, volume = {3}, number = {1}, title = {Objective, subjective and intersubjective selectors of knowledge}, author = {Francis Heylighen}, year = {1997}, pages = {63--67}, journal = {Evolution and Cognition}, keywords = {evolutionary epistemology, selectors, science, selection criteria, knowledge, science, Donald T. Campbell}, url = {http://cogprints.org/313/}, abstract = {It is argued that the acceptance of knowledge in a community depends on several, approximately independent selection "criteria". The objective criteria are distinctiveness, invariance and controllability, the subjective ones are individual utility, coherence, simplicity and novelty, and the intersubjective ones are publicity, expressivity, formality, collective utility, conformity and authority. Science demarcates itself from other forms of knowledge by explicitly controlling for the objective criteria.} }