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The Ten Assumptions of Science presents the logically coherent set of assumptions destined to define 21st century scientific philosophy. Glenn Borchardt first explains why assumptions and not absolutes are necessary for scientific thinking. By exploring the opposition between deterministic and indeterministic views, he clearly shows how critical choices among underlying assumptions either clarify or muddle scientific analysis. He shows how customary mixtures of deterministic and indeterministic assumptions are responsible for the current confusion in modern physics. According to Dr. Borchardt, only rare physicists and philosophers have an inkling of the nature of time, space, energy, and matter. The need for reassessing our fundamental assumptions is indicated by the present sorry state of cosmology. Otherwise intelligent scientists promulgate the idea that the universe expanded from a tiny "singularity" smaller than the period at the end of this sentence. At the very least, adherence to Borchardt's assumptions will contribute to the rejection of the "Big Bang Theory," which has surpassed the flat Earth theory as the greatest embarrassment to serious thinkers everywhere. Although the book makes an excellent supplement to college courses in scientific philosophy, it is an astounding eye-opener for the educated reader with an interest in science and philosophy.
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reviewed The theoretical limits of scientific power on January 02, 2016 The theoretical limits of scientific power
Polanyi's premise is that we know more than we can tell. Think about the face of someone you know well. Try to describe it. You probably can't. But if the police were to subject you to their technique of using photo albums to identify the different features of the face, you'd likely end up with a workable approximation. This is tacit knowledge and we rely on it more often than we admit. Scientists, he says, are not only not explicitly aware of the experiments that came before them, but they take them for granted during their own. We think of scientists as explorers of the unknown, but in reality they often have an idea of where they going even on totally new ground. They have vague notion of what they wish to discover - a tacit understanding - and able to recognize it as it is confirmed. Polayni's work was influential to Thomas Kuhn, who wrote The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. I had trouble reading Kuhn about a year ago and had to stop. After I read Polayni, I was able try again and slowly make my way through the whole thing. I feel better for having read both books and can now see their implications on a regular basis. In my recommendation to read them, I would suggest following a similar order.
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