Emergent Information: A Unified Theory of Information Framework by Wolfgang Hofkirchner

Author:Wolfgang Hofkirchner [Hofkirchner, Wolfgang]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9789814313483
Amazon: 9814313483
Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co Inc
Published: 2013-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

knowledge of what is old compared with novelty and what are parts in

relation to wholeness.

5.1.2 Anthroposociomorphismb

Like scientism, anthroposociomorphism believes in complete

deducibility as a means of explanation and prediction. The difference is

merely the culturalistic viewpoint, the synthetic bias, and the projective

attitude when essence comes into sight (Table 5.1, line 2).

Culturalism. In contradistinction to naturalism, the premises that are

sought for explanation or used for prediction refer to the social, human

and societal – socio-economic, socio-political, socio-cultural – domain.

Social causes are addressed in the explanans. The explanandum might

cover social (individual, societal) phenomena or natural ones. In the

latter case it becomes clear why the term “anthroposociomorphism” is

used: natural phenomena are explained (predicted) in the way social ones

are explained (predicted).

Synthesis. In order to arrive by deductive reasoning at the desired

conclusion, concrete features of the phenomenon in question are

collected and added to the essence (clearly a kind of inductive procedure

during the course of explanation). This involves a projection of the

unique onto the universal. Once the knowledge of the concrete is

contained by the knowledge of the explanans, the knowledge of the

explanandum can be derived.

Phenomena overdetermination. In naturalism, phenomena tend to

be underdetermined by the abstract essence and become abstract as well.

In anthroposociomorphism the opposite is the case. Phenomena tend to

be overdetermined by an essence that contains the concrete.

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