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doi:10.1093/oso/9780195130829.003.0003

Auteurs

John P

Année déclarée

1999

Langue déclarée

en · eng

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Abstract The simplicity of the phrase ‘the limits of science’ is deceptive. We are familiar with the limitations of scientists; we are familiar with partial theories about how things work; and we are familiar with theories that are simply wrong. In each case, what might at first be casually referred to as a limit of science is really nothing of the sort. Perhaps, after all, there are no true limits to science at all. Perhaps all boundaries are illusory, whether erected by ourselves through our lack of information about the nature of things, or by the choice of an oversimplified (or even an over-complicated) model of reality? This is an issue that must be taken seriously. All our attempts to describe the workings of Nature and to predict or control future events are based upon a scientific method that builds up a ‘model’ of how some aspect of Nature operates. The more observations we make, the more completely and accurately this representation of Nature can be checked and extended. Our models of Nature are invariably mathematical in character. This is not as narrow as it first sounds. Although the outsider sees mathematics as a coldly analytical way of looking at the world, it is something deeper than this: something that is closely linked to other human pictures of the world. At root, mathematics is the name we give to the collection of all possible patterns and interrelationships. Some of those patterns are between shapes, others are in sequences of numbers, while others are more abstract relationships between structures. The essence of mathematics lies in the relationships between quantities and qualities. Thus it is the relationships between numbers, not the numbers themselves, that form the focus of interest for modern mathematicians.

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DOI

10.1093/oso/9780195130829.003.0003

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OpenAIRE · Document 1

• DOI · https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195130829.003.0003

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