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gijs's review
4.0
Interesting short treatise on the ways of science and the way of scientific knowing; a systematic encounter with reality does not stop at the limits of human comprehension or representation into familiar images and metaphors; in the quantum world, predictions can be tested and verified empirically, without a unifying theory explaining all properties of the same phenomenon.
“This is a sharp reminder that ways of thinking about
things, which seem natural and inevitable and almost ap-
pear not to rest on experience so much as on the inherent
qualities of thought and nature, do in fact rest on experi-
ence; and that there are parts of experience rendered ac-
cessible by exploration and experimental refinement where
these ways of thought no longer apply.”
“This is a sharp reminder that ways of thinking about
things, which seem natural and inevitable and almost ap-
pear not to rest on experience so much as on the inherent
qualities of thought and nature, do in fact rest on experi-
ence; and that there are parts of experience rendered ac-
cessible by exploration and experimental refinement where
these ways of thought no longer apply.”
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