formulated in explicit formal and mathematical terms." -- Gopnik and Glymour
Is that really true? It strikes me as odd that formalism and
math would pull us away from causal thinking.
Gathatoulie
And of these shall I speak to those eager, That quality of wisdom that all the wise wish And call creative qualities And good creation of the mind The all-powerful truth Truly and that more & better ways are discovered Towards perfection --Zarathustra.
Thursday, October 15, 2009
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hmm, he might be trying to get at the idea that scientific theorising tends to require seperation which kills systematic thinking.
Think about the story of a child who wants to grow up as a biologist. She goes to a field and picks some flows and attempts to learn how they grow.
She is sad that they all die.
The sheer poetry of this is disarming.
I think you're right; and I guess the point
I'm taking away from this is that there
is a difference between "science",
which includes causal models, and
"causal thinking", which is a form of
thinking.
Science isn't thinking.
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