stinkubus
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In what context? Cause, in general, certainly not all questions of knowledge are tied to power (obvious example being math questions).
Power may not determine which logical inferences are valid or not, but it does go a long way to determine which questions are acceptable to ask. Mathematics is not immune from this phenomenon. Georg Cantor was exiled from academia when his conception of set theory clashed with orthodoxy. Isaac Newton refused to publish many of his discoveries for no other reason than to avoid controversy. The first coherent vision of a non-Euclidian geometry was formulated in a prison cell because no one in the academy would go near it.