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Psychoanalysis, in Bion's assertion, is a joint activity of analysand and analyst to determine the truth. He suggested that they are engaged on what is, in intention, a scientific activity. Is psychoanalysis, then, a science? Is it not a hermeneutic discipline? In either case, how do we know that it produces knowledge? How can such knowledge be scientifically verifiable? Over the decades, philosophers and psychoanalysts have wrestled with these issues and advocated different conceptual