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- المؤلفون: Thomas Mueller
- المصدر:
Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology, Vol 17, Iss 1, Pp 165-181 (2013)
- الموضوع:
- نوع التسجيلة:
article in journal/newspaper
- اللغة:
English
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- معلومة اضافية
- بيانات النشر:
Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
- الموضوع:
2013
- Collection:
Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles
- نبذة مختصرة :
In this article, we will defend an epistemological claim: that observation is mathematically-laden. A well-known thesis in the philosophy of science is that observation is theory-laden. The claim that observation is mathematically laden can be partially seen as an analogous argument. The first part of the paper focuses on the definition of mathematically-ladeness and its relations to the best-known problem of theory-ladeness. The second part of the paper presents some explicit examples and outlines the consequences and the difficulties of this epistemological limit. Finally a specific context for this problem is discussed in details: we will analyze the question of deterministic chaos as a paradigmatic example of mathematically-ladeness and shows that the deterministic or indeterministic nature of chaos is strongly linked to the choice of a particular mathematical description.
- ISSN:
1414-4247
1808-1711
- Relation:
https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/principia/article/view/27101; https://doaj.org/toc/1414-4247; https://doaj.org/toc/1808-1711; https://doaj.org/article/45b5f4b87e1d416dbdb3eed96b09281e
- الرقم المعرف:
10.5007/1808-1711.2013v17n1p165
- الرقم المعرف:
edsbas.E18ECE45
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