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Lastly, the focus on the individual level is to help us give an answer to the following questions: What do we mean by individual level and what role do individuals play in scientific change? And how do we understand the role of the individual in relation with the social level?
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Alexander Bird argues in his 2010 paper that cognitive labor is a representation of the individual level. In his paper, Bird mentions how the scientific knowledge that a community has comes from the individual scientists, and therefore emphasizes the collectiveness of knowledge. He argues that knowledge comes from the individual’s perspectives and reasoning, and it results in what we call a community. [[CiteRef::Longino (2016a)|p. 18]]
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