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The Unknown as an Engine for Science

An Essay on the Definite and the Indefinite

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The Frontiers Collection

Paru le : 2015-05-28



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This book explores the limits of our knowledge. The author shows how uncertainty and indefiniteness not only define the borders confining our understanding, but how they feed into the process of discovery and help to push back these borders. Starting with physics the author collects examples from economics, neurophysiology, history, ecology and philosophy.
The first part shows how information helps to reduce indefiniteness. Understanding rests on our ability to find the right context, in which we localize a problem as a point in a network of connections. New elements must be combined with the old parts of the existing complex knowledge system, in order to profit maximally from the information. An attempt is made to quantify the value of information by its ability to reduce indefiniteness.
The second part explains how to handle indefiniteness with methods from fuzzy logic, decision theory, hermeneutics and semiotics. It is not sufficient that the new element appears in an experiment, one also has to find a theoretical reason for its existence. Indefiniteness becomes an engine of science, which gives rise to new ideas.
Pages
146 pages
Collection
The Frontiers Collection
Parution
2015-05-28
Marque
Springer
EAN papier
9783319185088
EAN PDF
9783319185095
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1
Nombre pages imprimables
14
Taille du fichier
4639 Ko
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52,74 €
EAN EPUB
9783319185095
Informations sur l'ebook
Nombre pages copiables
1
Nombre pages imprimables
14
Taille du fichier
758 Ko
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