LA VERITÀ FALLIBILE: Pragmatismo e immagine scientifica del mondo (Filosofia) (Italian Edition) by MICHELE MARSONET

Author:MICHELE MARSONET [MARSONET, MICHELE]
Language: ita
Format: epub
Publisher: IPAZIA BOOKS
Published: 2014-08-19T22:00:00+00:00

The current state of “scientific knowledge” is simply one state among others that share the same imperfect footing of ultimate correctness or truth. The “science of the day” must be presumed inaccurate no matter what the calendar says. We unequivocally realize there is a strong prospect that we shall ultimately recognize many or most of our current scientific theories to be false and that what we proudly flaunt as “scientific knowledge” is a tissue of hypotheses - of tentatively adopted contentions many or most of which we will ultimately come to regard as quite untenable and in need of serious revision, or perhaps even abandonment. It is this fact that blocks the option of a scientific realism of any straightforward sort. Not only are we not in a position to claim that our knowledge of reality is complete (...) we are not even in a position to claim that our “knowledge” of reality is correct (...) Such a position calls for the humbling view that just as we think our predecessors of a hundred years ago had a fundamentally inadequate grasp on the “furniture of the world”, so our successors of a hundred years hence will take the same view of our purported knowledge of things.[17]

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