Published : 2022-11-07

THEORY AND PRACTICE IN SCIENCE – PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVE

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Modern science is deductive at the starting point. This means that the scientist is free to create hypotheses that must then be confirmed experimentally. The abandonment of the inductive approach has caused the problem of the transition from thought to reality. Existential Thomism is an example of criticism of this deductive approach to science. It seems, however, that the return to induction is impossible, because from the level of observation it is no longer possible to draw general conclusions regarding e.g. nature. General conclusions can be made on the basis of mathematics. This, however, makes reality too complicated for any scientific theory to fully explain it, which accords with the Thomistic notions that starting with thinking one cannot come to reality. Gödel’s theorems confirm this Thomistic approach. We find ourselves in a situation where both induction and deduction are insufficient to find the truth, unless we give up mathematics, without which it is difficult to speak of any sciences other than philosophy and theology. We are doomed to constant confrontation between theory and practice.

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theory, practice, Gödel’s theorems, mathematics, induction, deduction.



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Szopa, R. . (2022). THEORY AND PRACTICE IN SCIENCE – PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVE. Społeczeństwo, 159(3), 121–129. Retrieved from https://spoleczenstwo-civitaschristiana.pl/index.php/s/article/view/287




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