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The Outer Limits of Reason - What Science, Mathematics, and Logic Cannot Tell Us (Paperback)
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The Outer Limits of Reason - What Science, Mathematics, and Logic Cannot Tell Us (Paperback)
Series: The Mit Press
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Loot Price R580
Discovery Miles 5 800
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An exploration of the scientific limits of knowledge that
challenges our deep-seated beliefs about our universe, our
rationality, and ourselves. Many books explain what is known about
the universe. This book investigates what cannot be known. Rather
than exploring the amazing facts that science, mathematics, and
reason have revealed to us, this work studies what science,
mathematics, and reason tell us cannot be revealed. In The Outer
Limits of Reason, Noson Yanofsky considers what cannot be
predicted, described, or known, and what will never be understood.
He discusses the limitations of computers, physics, logic, and our
own thought processes. Yanofsky describes simple tasks that would
take computers trillions of centuries to complete and other
problems that computers can never solve; perfectly formed English
sentences that make no sense; different levels of infinity; the
bizarre world of the quantum; the relevance of relativity theory;
the causes of chaos theory; math problems that cannot be solved by
normal means; and statements that are true but cannot be proven. He
explains the limitations of our intuitions about the world-our
ideas about space, time, and motion, and the complex relationship
between the knower and the known. Moving from the concrete to the
abstract, from problems of everyday language to straightforward
philosophical questions to the formalities of physics and
mathematics, Yanofsky demonstrates a myriad of unsolvable problems
and paradoxes. Exploring the various limitations of our knowledge,
he shows that many of these limitations have a similar pattern and
that by investigating these patterns, we can better understand the
structure and limitations of reason itself. Yanofsky even attempts
to look beyond the borders of reason to see what, if anything, is
out there.
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