Does knowledge rest on construction in the sense that it only functions because the knowing system is operatively closed, therefore: because it can m… - Niklas Luhmann

" "

Does knowledge rest on construction in the sense that it only functions because the knowing system is operatively closed, therefore: because it can maintain no operative contact with the outside world; and because it therefore remains dependent, for everything that it constructs, on its own distinction between self-reference and allo-reference?