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Determinism, Holism, and Complexity (Hardcover, 2003 ed.)
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Determinism, Holism, and Complexity (Hardcover, 2003 ed.)
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Determinism, holism and complexity: three epistemological attitudes
that have easily identifiable historical origins and developments.
Galileo believed that it was necessary to "prune the impediments"
to extract the mathematical essence of physical phenomena, to
identify the math ematical structures representing the underlying
laws. This Galilean method was the key element in the development
of Physics, with its extraordinary successes. Nevertheless the
method was later criticized because it led to a view of nature as
essentially "simple and orderly," and thus by choosing not to
investigate several charac teristics considered as an "impediment,"
several essential aspects of the phenomenon under investigation
might be left out. The Galilean point of view also contains an
acknowledgement of the central role played by the causal nexus
among phenomena. The mechanistic-deterministic de scription of
reality - for instance, a la Laplace - although acknowledging that
it is not possible to predict phenomena exactly owing to unavoid
able measurement error, is based on the recognition of the their
causal nature, even in an ontological sense. Consequently,
deterministic predic tion became the methodological fulcrum of
mathematical physics. But although mechanistic determinism has had
and, in many cases, still has, considerable success in Physics, in
other branches of science this situa tion is much less favourable."
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