On Accelerations in Science Driven by Daring Ideas: Good Messages from Fallibilistic Rationalism

On Accelerations in Science Driven by Daring Ideas: Good Messages from Fallibilistic Rationalism

The first good message is to the effect that people possess reason as a source of intellectual insights, not available to the senses, as e.g. axioms of arithmetic. The awareness of this fact is called rationalism. Another good message is that reason can daringly quest for and gain new plausible insi...

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Main Author: Marciszewski Witold
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sciendo 2015-03-01
Series:Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric
Subjects:
a priori
complexity
computability
fallibilism
fallibilistic rationalism
fallibility
fundamentalism
gödel’s speedup strategy
guessing with clues
information processing
informativeness vs certainty
problem-solving
risk
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/slgr-2015-0002
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Summary:The first good message is to the effect that people possess reason as a source of intellectual insights, not available to the senses, as e.g. axioms of arithmetic. The awareness of this fact is called rationalism. Another good message is that reason can daringly quest for and gain new plausible insights. Those, if suitably checked and confirmed, can entail a revision of former results, also in mathematics, and - due to the greater efficiency of new ideas - accelerate science’s progress. The awareness that no insight is secured against revision, is called fallibilism.
ISSN:0860-150X
2199-6059

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