Scientific Understanding
Davies, E Brian (2006) Scientific Understanding.
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Abstract
Many of those actively involved in the physical sciences adopt a reductionist point of view, in which all aspects of the world are ultimately controlled by physical laws that are expressed in terms of mathematical equations. In this article we adopt a pluralistic approach to human understanding in which mathematically expressed laws of nature are merely one way among several of describing a world that is too vast and complex for our minds to be able to grasp in its entirety.
| Keywords: | reductionism, Kant, Platonism, pluralism, epistemology |
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| Subjects: | General Issues: Models and Idealization General Issues: Laws of Nature Specific Sciences: Mathematics General Issues: Reductionism/Holism General Issues: Explanation Specific Sciences: Physics |
| ID Code: | 2952 |
| Deposited By: | Davies, E Brian |
| Deposited On: | 08 October 2006 |
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