La scienza, la “strategia dello sguardo” e l’abduzione

• Main Author: Silvano Tagliagambe
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: S&F_scienzaefilosofia.it 2016-06-01
• Series: S&F_scienzaefilosofia.it
• Subjects: scienza; fantascienza; cinema; Einstein
• Online Access: http://www.scienzaefilosofia.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/res709987_15-02-TAGLIAGAMBE.pdf

Science,“strategy of Sight” and Abduction With the Sidereus Nuncius of Galilei (1610) begins not only modern science but also “the strategy of sight” of scientific research. This method involves the use of mathematics to show scientific discoveries to the eyes of each one, as well as philosophers and astronomy specialists. The strategy of sight offers, through highly accurate drawings and images, the statement of things literally never seen before, enhancing and extending man's view for the first time in a possibly infinite space, certainly much larger than the enclosed area of ​​the Aristotelian- Ptolemaic system. The truth, in fact, can be seen, not only deduced by abstract logic. The beginning of Einstein's theory of relativity is therefore the extraordinary ability to imagine how the world can be made, namely the strategy of sight from which sprang a hypothesis produced by abductive method rather than inductive method. In hypothetical reasoning or abduction the scientist leads to the conclusion that there is a fact completely different from any other observed, a fact unprecedented, whose strength and whose power of conviction are able to make natural and understandable a dark and impenetrable puzzle of data.