The decline of classical epistemology on unity-identity-totality shows it becomes more urgent to leave formal conventionalism behind, and to use a new diverging language. Every scientist must feel the emotion of the beginner. Nevertheless, we must not have illusions. Pure observation does not exist. Moreover, there are no laws that can remove the asymmetries of a system. The knowledge and scientific practice free themselves from the obsession of clarity, of linearity and from the idea of evolution that follows and precedes through pre-determined ways and versions. What we need is a multiple, connected intellection that allows us to look at science and at the world without the distorting effect of ingenuous methodologies and classifications that, if on the one hand put us at our ease, on the other hand keep us from the knowledge of things.

Phenomenology of discovery: the cognition of complexity / Maldonato, M.. - In: WORLD FUTURES. - ISSN 0260-4027. - 67:(2011), pp. 372-379. [10.1080/02604027.2011.585913]

Phenomenology of discovery: the cognition of complexity

M. MALDONATO
2011

Abstract

The decline of classical epistemology on unity-identity-totality shows it becomes more urgent to leave formal conventionalism behind, and to use a new diverging language. Every scientist must feel the emotion of the beginner. Nevertheless, we must not have illusions. Pure observation does not exist. Moreover, there are no laws that can remove the asymmetries of a system. The knowledge and scientific practice free themselves from the obsession of clarity, of linearity and from the idea of evolution that follows and precedes through pre-determined ways and versions. What we need is a multiple, connected intellection that allows us to look at science and at the world without the distorting effect of ingenuous methodologies and classifications that, if on the one hand put us at our ease, on the other hand keep us from the knowledge of things.
2011
Phenomenology of discovery: the cognition of complexity / Maldonato, M.. - In: WORLD FUTURES. - ISSN 0260-4027. - 67:(2011), pp. 372-379. [10.1080/02604027.2011.585913]
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