Hacking, I. (1995). The looping effects of human kinds. In D. Sperber, D. Premack, & A. J. Premack (Eds.), Causal Cognition: A Multidisciplinary Debate (pp. 351–383). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198524021.003.0012.
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Why this is here
A9 §9 used it to split two effects of an apparatus: constitutive (a classification establishes what counts as an entity of an institutional kind) and looping causal (the classification changes the system classified, which changes the classification). CLAIM-476 claims the first for luria’s grammar and leaves the second to be tested. The record holds Hacking’s The Social Construction of What? (LIT-475), unavailable.