attempts to effect connections between representation and object can go wrong: 1) indexicality, in which the underlying reality of a representation is never fixed and can always be changed with occasion of use; 2) inconcludability, for it is always possible to ask for further clarification, elaboration, elucidation, and so on; and 3) reflexivity, since the intimate interdependence between representation and represented object is such that the sense of the representation is elaborated by drawing on "knowledge" of the object. Woolgar addresses managing these methodological horrors and identifies four types of strategy, each of which tries in different ways to deny, evade, or minimize the problem.
To address the critical problems emerging from this study, Woolgar proposes two main policies. Inversion is to be cri
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