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The Nature of Form (Part 3)
| SERIES: The Nature of Form AUTHOR: Jim Schofield |
STRANDS: PHILOSOPHY / FORM |
ABSTRACT: This sequence of three papers considers the Nature of Form. First it concentrates on the quantitative aspect of Form, which is normally revealed by the pluralist Scientific Method and its corollary – Reductionism. The pragmatic patchwork of equations is criticised as not explaining things, and the quite distinct and philosophically different long established methods of Scientific Explanation are described , contrasted to, and related to the equations culminating Forms. In particular the Form usally called The Analogy – “from the known to the unknown” is explained as a more profound alternative to purely Quantitative Form. It is described as Qualitative Form and linked closely with Process, as distinct from Equations that are linked solely to Relation. |
SYNOPSIS: 1. Holism addresses Change. 2. Yet its seeming unintelligibility is rescued by another kind of Form – Analogy 3. From the Known to the Unknown: the power of analogy. 4. Reality is the Supreme Arbiter. 5. The Crisis in Sub Atomic Physics and the abandonment of Explanation, for the “certainty” of quantitative Form.! |
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