Autor: Flanagan, Josef

Buch: Quest for Self-Knowledge

Titel: Quest for Self-Knowledge

Stichwort: Potenz, Form, Akt; Struktur: klassisch, statistisch, genetisch, dialektisch

Kurzinhalt: Beziehung zw. den 4 heuristischen Grundmethoden und der Metaphysik; je anderes Verhältnis zw. Potenz, Form und Akt

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In brief, classical scientists deal with forms, while statistical scientists deal with the relations of these forms to acts. Genetic scientists deal with the way forms emerge from potencies, and dialectical scientists focus on the obstruction of emerging forms.



41/6 Classical insights involve grasping invariant correlations among continuously changing variables, but such correlations are discovered by abstracting from the actual concrete conditions under which these correlates or conjugate forms actually operate. Statistical scientists attempt to understand how often these classical correlations occur in certain concrete conditions or, if they have already occurred and are recurring, then what the probability of their survival is. In verifying such frequencies or probabilities, statistical scientists abstract from the nonsystematic or random variations around these ideal frequencies. In brief, classical scientists deal with forms, while statistical scientists deal with the relations of these forms to acts. Genetic scientists deal with the way forms emerge from potencies, and dialectical scientists focus on the obstruction of emerging forms. I will discuss genetic and dialectical methods after I discuss the finality or indeterminate directed dynamism of the universe, but here I want to restate my earlier contrast between cycles and schemes of correlations or conjugate forms. (160; Fs) (notabene)