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The Scientific Representation of Reality: Its Difficulties

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2024

Dimitri P. Gorski
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Material reality, constantly variable and constantly in movement, dialectic in its nature, is reflected in the sciences which at specific stages of their development possess an univocal form: the results of knowledge are expressed in a language which uses terminology and symbolism, its ideas and its statements have a precise and definite sense.

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Diogenes , Volume 15 , Issue 60 , December 1967, pp. 20 - 34
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Copyright © 1967 Fédération Internationale des Sociétés de Philosophie / International Federation of Philosophical Societies (FISP)

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The author based this article on his, Problems of General Methodology of the Sciences and of Dialectical Logic (to be published soon).

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1 It is known that similar problems in connection with difficulties of identification of the object with itself have already been formulated, for the first time, in the history of West-Europe philosophy by Heraclitus of Ephesus.

2 Lenin, Vol. 38, page 255.

3 Here, we will examine the so-called traditional method of representing reality. We will not touch upon "not-classical" methods of this representation, in terms of cybernetical processes for modeling complicated dynamical systems.

4 Talking of this, Euclid, in his Principles, had clearly formulated in the form of axioms of such situations, the situations without an obvious "attribute"; in order to accept them it would have been necessary to agree upon them from the beginning.

5 The example has been taken from Einstein's and L. Infeld's work: The Evolution of Physics. Literary technical and theoretical Editions - 1956 - pages 42 & 43.

6 For details concerning the process of idealization, see Abstraction Problems and Formation of Concepts by Gorsky, 1961. Ch. VIII.

7 Joukovsky, Theoretical Mechanics (State Technical Editions. 1952, p. 12).

8 S.A. Iakovskaya, Avant-garde Ideas by N.I. Lobatchevsky: Materials to combat Idealism in Mathematics, URSS, 1960, pages 5-6.

9 S.A. Iakovskaya, Zeno of Elea, in Philosophical Encyclopedia, tome 2, 1962, page 173.