Grasping reality : an interpretation-realistic epistemology /
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| Author / Creator: | Lenk, Hans. |
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| Imprint: | River Edge, N.J. : World Scientific, ©2003. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 266 pages) : illustrations |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Series on the foundations of natural science and technology ; v. 5 Series on the foundations of natural science and technology ; v. 5. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11179112 |
| Summary: | Grasping Reality addresses the methodology of a sophisticated realistic approach to scientific as well as everyday recognition by using schemes and interpretative constructs to analyze theories and the practice of recognition from a hypothesis-realistic vantage point.The three main theses are: (1) Any "grasping" of real objects, processes, entities etc. is deeply dependent on scheme interpretations and interpretative constructs -- in short, on using schemes and constructs; the same applies to any sophisticated actions encroaching on reality; (2) a sophisticated interpretation-dependent realism is sketched out and defended from a methodological, non-foundational, epistemological point of view called pragmatic realism; (3) the most provocative thesis is generalized from the role of the well-known preparationist interpretation of quantum theory to everyday knowledge -- the interpretative structuring and preparing of the experimental make-up as known in quantum mechanics is not just a special case but the rather general case of gaining any knowledge in science and everyday recognition.An appendix provides an overview regarding a realistic and pragmatic philosophy of technology, including the so-called new information technologies. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 266 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-254) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9789812795571 981279557X 9789812380241 9812380248 |