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"History of scientific knowledge consists of a
perennial rigging and collapsing of ever expanding
paradigms -
every expansion denied and fought off with the last-ditch obstinacy of old
guard scientists." - Lew
Paz
There are a few exceptions to the idea
there is no conclusive proof in science.
Scientists
intuitively feel how
rational
scientific theories are,
rather than having a
precise logical method for making such judgements.
Shaping
principles, based on an intuitive understanding
of variables and probabilities, go
unspoken as most are
unaware they are using
them.
Shaping principles influence the data we perceive as
there is a tendency for the
mind to subconsciously fill in
patterns based on these notions.
Such human contamination is
called internal theoretical orientation of data.
As a result, totally objective data can,
in reality, never be obtained.
"Framing is the process by which
a communication source, such
as a news organization,
defines and constructs a
political issue or public
controversy" (Nelson, Oxley, & Clawson, 1997, p. 221).
Jim A.
Kuypers defined frames as
rhetorical entities that "induce us to filter perceptions of the world in
particular ways, essentially making some
aspects of our multi-dimensional reality more noticeable than other
aspects."
"Framing is a process whereby
communicators, consciously or
subconsciously, act to construct a
point of view that encourages the facts of a given situation to be interpreted
by others in a particular manner.
Frames operate in four key ways:
they define problems,
diagnose causes,
make moral judgments, and
suggest
remedies.
Frames are often found within
a narrative account of
an issue or event, and are generally
the central organizing idea." - Jim A. Kuypers
A frame must be relevant to
observers and inform them.
Snow, Rochford, Worden, Benford (1986)
identify three core framing tasks.
The degree tasks are attended to
will determine participant mobilization:
Diagnostic framing for
identification of a problem causation;
prognostic framing to suggest
solutions, strategies and tactical possibilities;
motivational framing that
serves as a call to arms or rationale for action.
People
view reality through framing
and shaping
principles.
Once a framework of a
personal worldview is in place it
recedes from conscious
thought to lodge
itself deep in the subconscious.
Having built framework to
navigate, we no longer consciously plug
in.
It is
subconscious; what we think of as "common sense" is merely an act
or notion that resonates within one of our
deep subconscious
frameworks.
"A new scientific truth does not triumph by
convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its
opponents eventually die, and a
next generation grows up that is familiar with it." - Max Planck
"Efforts to communicate science are hampered by the
fact that perfectly
intelligent people are ignorant of the basic principles of science." -
AA
The goal of Science is to obtain
True Knowledge of Reality,
precisely the same goal as that of the
Ancient Gnostics.
Philosophy of science
deals with the
systemic nature of scientific inquiry which is
equivalent to gnostic
inquiry.
To properly understand the philosophy of science, to
understand methods of gnostic inquiry, it is necessary to understand basic
elements of science which include data, theories, and
shaping principles.
Collections of
information about physical processes are termed data.
Collecting data to
support scientific theories is laborious.
Fundamental assumptions are made in data
collection.
Details of that process are often excluded when forming a
scientific theory.
Overgeneralized data is easier to fit into a
scientific theory than specific data.
Scientific theories come in two
forms.
Phenomenological theories are empirical generalizations of
data.
They describe recurring
processes of nature and do
not refer to causation.
Phenomenological theories involve
physical laws and
natural
laws.
Explanatory theories attempt to explain the observations
rather than generalize them.
Whereas laws are descriptions of empirical
regularities, explanatory theories are conceptual
constructions to explain why the phenomena
exist.
Shaping principles are
non-empirical
fundamental assumptions that form the basis of science and go into selecting
every theory.
Originally science, a systematic way of acquiring
knowledge, was seen as absolutely objective, rational, and
based on purely empirical
observations.
This traditional image of science held that
scientific theories and laws were to be
conclusively confirmed or conclusively falsified based on objective data.
It was believed that the "scientific method"
excluded cognitive
bias, emotion, intuition, assumptions and was based entirely on logic and
reason.
The definition of what the "scientific method" is
has changed over time.
In the early seventeenth century Baconian
inductivism was considered to be the "scientific method."
The basic concept:
collect as numerous of observations as
humanly possible;
remain
unaffected by any prior prejudice, theoretical preconceptions or
cognitive bias while gathering the data;
inductively infer theory from data
(generalize data into physical laws);
then collect more data to modify
or reject the
hypothesis as needed.
Unfortunately, when using inductivism to arrive at
natural laws,
certain theoretical preconceptions are absolutely vital.
To generalize
the data into physical laws, the individual must assume that the laws apply for
physical processes not observed.
This results in several assumptions
being held, such as a uniform operation of nature.
Even if we put aside
the fact that inductive logic is
invariably based on such postulations, there is another problem.
Science
deals with concepts and explanatory theories that cannot be directly observed,
including atomic theory and the theory of gravity.
Many other theories
include unobservable concepts like forces, fields, and subatomic particles.
There is no known rigorous inductive logic that can infer those theories and
concepts solely from the data they explain.
Isaac Newton developed hypothetico-deductivism in the
late 1600s.
Essentially, one starts with a
hypothesis, basically a provisional
theory, and then deduces what we would expect to find in the empirical world as
a result of that hypothesis.
"I am very astonished that the scientific
image of the real world around me is deficient." - Erwin
Schrödinger |
The concept
was to quarantine
human
irrationality.
A theory did not become a valid theory by its
origins, but because of the
hypothetico-deductive
method of verification.
Hypothetico-deductivism fails if rigorous
proof is necessary for valid science.
We must assume: sense experience,
memory, and testimony are all generally reliable; we have examined all the data
and there is no possibility
future observations will
behave unexpectedly.
Unfortunately every theory has an infinite number
of expected empirical outcomes, and we are incapable of testing all of those
expectations.
As a result of the underdetermination of theories and
unknown unknowns,
contradictory
empirical evidence, a scientific theory cannot be conclusively proven
merely through the data.
Karl Popper recognized that one could not
record everything observed.
Some sort of selection is needed, and thus
observation is always
selective.
Karl Popper felt a hypothesis had to come first for
scientific investigation to begin as there is no other way to determine which
data is to be observed.
Karl Popper developed the idea of falsification
which suggests that if a prediction does not come true, then the scientific
theory must be false.
The necessity for a
scientific theory to be conclusively falsifiable is known as the demarcation
criterion.
Surprisingly, the problem is that
it is impossible to conclusively falsify
theories by empirical data.
Scientific theories, by themselves, are
incapable of making predictions.
assumptions and
variables
Empirical results of an
experiment invariably rest on
auxiliary assumptions - assumptions auxiliary to the original fundamental
assumptions.
Assume we have a particle theory that says if we process a
certain particle in a particular way, we will get specified values on various
measurements.
We must assume:
all foundational theories involved
in deriving the prediction are correct;
the models we are using in
deriving the prediction are all correct;
the predictions derived from
employing the theories and models to make the prediction are all logically
correct;
and, due to the nature of reality, most
variables we'll skip …
Predictions of future probable outcomes are
dependent on the fundamental assumptions of previous scientific theories and
the models derived.
Unfortunately scientific
theories cannot be conclusively proven.
The dependence on
foundational assumptions to make predictions is sometimes called the
Duhem-Quine problem.
Theories can neither be conclusively proven nor
conclusively falsified by empirical data.
It is possible to salvage a troubled theory
or make arguments against a
well-supported theory simply by altering
auxiliary assumptions to produce different predictions or
change the meaning of
theory-laden observations.
It is also possible to modify virtually
any theory so that it's consistent with whatever data that might come
up.
The shaping principles used to build theories form
the foundation of
science.
Examples of shaping principles include:
there exists an external
objective reality; the belief
natural processes operate in a fairly consistent manner;
our senses are generally
reliable.
Due to the underdetermination of theories, there is always
an infinite number of competing theories that can accommodate any given set of
empirical data.
Ockham's
Razor or the Law of Parsimony, the fundamental
shaping principles of logic, states that, if all other aspects are equal,
the simplest theory is preferred over other theories involving additional
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