Stichwort: Wissenschaft

Autor, Quelle: Lonergan, Bernard J.F., The Trinune God: Systematics

Titel: Wissenschaft -

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Text: 755e In any science that is little developed, it is easy to distinguish between analysis and synthesis, that is, between the way of resolution and the way of composition. For, since we attain a knowledge of causes through inquiry and investigation, there necessarily exists some ordinary, prescientific knowledge by which we apprehend an object without as yet knowing its causes. Therefore, the first movement by which we proceed to acquire scientific knowledge begins from ordinary prescientific knowledge of things and terminates in knowing their causes. This first movement is called (1) analysis, because it leads from what is apprehended indistinctly to well-defined causes or reasons, (2) the way of resolution, because it resolves things into their causes, (3) the way of discovery, because through it are found hitherto unknown causes, and (4) the way of certitude, because the ordinary prescientific knowledge of things is most obvious to us, and therefore the arguments that are most certain to us begin from this ordinary knowledge to bring to light what are more remote from us and more obscure. (Fs; tblStw: Wissenschaft) (notabene)