This debate brought back to my mind thoughts of a great philosopher as
(yet again) much about scientific pursuits that has been analyzed in
depth much before this age of reinvention of the square wheel ought to
be (at least) acknowledged. What I'm quoting below is just a glimpse.
The entire work is more than worth the reading - very much relevant to
the essence and evolution of scientific knowledge; what is truth today
may be very well derided as ignorance tomorrow ... (01)
« En effet, si l'être en soi est un principe qui se communique à
l'esprit - tout de même qu'un point matériel entre en relation
avec l'espace par un champ d'action - il ne saurait être le
symbole d'une unité. Il conviendrait donc de fonder une ontologie
du complémentaire moins âprement dialectique que la métaphysique
du contradictoire. » (02)
Gaston Bachelard, « Le Nouvel Esprit Scientifique », (1934) (03)
--- (04)
"Indeed, if being in itself is a principle that is transmitted to
mind - just as a material point relates to space through a field of
action - it could in no way be the symbol of a unique instance. It
would thence be more appropriate to found an ontology of
complementation, less bitterly dialectic than the metaphysics of
contradiction." (05)
Gaston Bachelard, "The New Scientific Mind", (1934) (06)
[hak's translation] (07)
--- (08)
In other words, scientific knowledge gains from the flexibility of
"depends on the situation" rather than "it is this and ain't that". (09)
http://classiques.uqac.ca/classiques/bachelard_gaston/nouvel_esprit_scientifique/nouvel_esprit_scientifique_intro.html (010)
-hak (011)
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