On 10/29/2012 10:21 AM, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote:
Some more quotes from From Scientific Representation: Paradoxes of Perspective by Bas C
Van Fraassen.
p. 45 "Agreed, we cannot demonstrate that in principle, as a matter of logic,
mathematical modeling must inevitably be a distortion of what is modeled, although
models actually constructed cannot have perfection reachable in principle. But on the
other hand, the conviction that perfect modeling is possible in principle - what Paul
Teller calls the "perfect model model" - does not have an a priori justification either!"
p. 83 "Suppose now that science gives us a model which putatively represents the world
in full detail. Suppose even we believe that this is so. Suppose we regard ourselves as
knowing that it is so. Then still, before we can go on to use that model, to make
predictions and build bridges, we must locate ourselves with respect to that model.
If the model is complete it must already include us - as well as what we will think about
it and do with it. But then this will run into Godelian incompleteness. If it is true it
will be unprovable within the model.
Brent
So apparently we need to have something in addition to what science has given us here.
The extra is the self-ascription of location."
p. 83 "Have we now landed in a dilemma for our view of science as paradigmatically
objective? If we say that the self-ascription is a simple, objective statement of fact,
then science is inevitably doomed to be objectively incomplete. If instead we say it is
something irreducibly subjective, then we have also admitted a limit to objectivity, we
have let subjectivity into science."
Evgenii
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