Autor: Tekippe, Terry J.

Buch: What Is Lonergan Up to in Insight?

Titel: What Is Lonergan Up to in Insight?

Stichwort: Wissenschaft, innere, äußere, Unterschied, Hauptbegriffe; Irreversibilität

Kurzinhalt: Unterschied: Naturwissenschaft, Wissenschaft des Bewusstsein, Grundbegriffe, Newton, reflexive Erkenntnis (eg), Revision (Arten)

Textausschnitt: () The point to be grasped is that basic terms in the physical sciences are matters of discovery, and new discoveries may always make old ones outdated. Basic terms come and go; only the method of the physical sciences remains constant. (106; Fs)
433 The basic terms of the science of consciousness, however, will not be subject to revision. For they are the mental activities themselves, and, as seen in the last chapter, those activities are, in a certain sense, self-justifying. Trying to revise them would only land the prospective reviser in incoherence.
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Revision, then, can occur only if there appear new data, or if old data are given a new understanding. It can only take place by appeal to experience or insight. But one can hardly appeal to experience to revise the activity of experience
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To put it another way, a revision implies a new judgment, which states something to be the case which is at variance with the old judgment. Making such a judgment requires evidence; otherwise it will be unreasonable. But a judgment takes a stand on prior insights and experiences; and so a new judgment, as just seen, will require either new experience, or new insights, or both.
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The reason, of course, that the basic terms of cognitional science are not revisable, while those of the natural sciences are, is that in the natural sciences the activities of the mind are turned upon the data of sense, offered by the physical world, while the mental activities, in the science of consciousness, return upon themselves. In the science being proposed, then, the mental activities are explicitly, deliberately, and systematically turned upon themselves, in contrast to the sporadic and partial attention they receive in common-sense awareness.