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(2015) The unknown as an engine for science, Dordrecht, Springer.
Our knowledge is increasing at a great rate; the number of scientific and scholarly publications per year has doubled in the past 20 years, but at the same time, the boundaries of our knowledge are also becoming more and more extended. In many-dimensional systems, for example for a sphere of n dimensions (n » 3), it is well known that the major portion of its volume lies near the surface. If we represent our knowledge as the volume of a sphere and its indefiniteness as the surface, we can see that the indefinite increases just as rapidly as does our overall knowledge. Modern humans have to live with the indefinite. Our society turns to science with questions whose answers lie hidden in darkness. The hope is that science can shed light on the answers. Can these expectations be fulfilled? How does science deal with the indefinite?
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-18509-5_1
Full citation:
Pirner, H. J. (2015). Introduction, in The unknown as an engine for science, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 1-8.
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