Hans J. Pirner
Broschiertes Buch

The Unknown as an Engine for Science

An Essay on the Definite and the Indefinite

Übersetzung: Brewer, William D.
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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 o...