  Scholars of the history and philosophy of science have asked what would
decolonized science would look like. This paper develops an answer by
interrogating the assumption that observations need to be recorded and
communicated using the language of classical physics. Niels Bohr held this
assumption even though he recognized the fact that quantum phenomena cannot be
analyzed on classical lines. Classical analysis requires the objectification of
whatever is being observed so that it can be objectively described. Inherent in
this analysis is the intellectual creation of a transcendental verity, a view
from nowhere. In contrast, knowledge systems that predate European colonialism
make use of the quantum nature of nature without constructing an objective
model of it. This paper concludes that uncolonized knowledge systems differ
from classical ones in that they are epistemically plural, accepting multiple
true observations of the same phenomenon.
