Double Look: Science Superposed on a Perceptual World

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  • <i>Double Look</i>: Science Superposed on a Perceptual World
公開日
1984
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  • 10.4288/jafpos1956.6.173
  • 10.1007/978-94-011-5175-7_5
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科学基礎論学会

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The world which science describes is neither colored nor transparent, neither noisy nor quiet, whereas the world we live in is full of color and full of sounds and quietudes. However, there obviously are not two different worlds. Then, are there two different kinds of objects in one world? But the stars we see in the sky are not different from what astronomers talk about, though the latter may use telescopes and other complicated devices to see the stars. Then, is the difference just a difference in manners of talking, one academic and the other, say, naive? And can a bilingual scientist translate his academic story to his wife into ordinary talk, provided they live unusually long enough? I do not think so. I want to show that those two ways of talking about the world are not reducible to each other, not for a technical but for a far more important reason. Nevertheless, I want to stress that they are related in a more intricate and unique way than that in which, for instance, geometrical and algebraic languages are. I believe the clue for this unique relation is found in the spatio-temporal superposition of two different descriptions. Scientific and perceptual descriptions are descriptions of two different looks of one and the same object which are spatio-temporally superposed on each other. Those apparent two looks are yielded from the double look of the same objects. From this point of view, obsessive object-copy dualism is discredited, while naive reductionism is shown to be untenable, and also the nature of scientific explanation and theoretical constructs is reconsidered so that they become less abstract and closer to our ordinary world.

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