Autor: Flanagan, Josef

Buch: Quest for Self-Knowledge

Titel: Quest for Self-Knowledge

Stichwort: statistisch, klassisch; Komplementarität

Kurzinhalt: statistische und klassische Form: verschiedene Arten von Intelligibilitäten; beide Methoden abstrahieren; klassisch: Voraussage, was notwendig geschehen wird; statistisch: Norm, was sein dürfte; Infragestellung der Notwendigkeit des Gesetztes

Textausschnitt: () Classical laws deal with different kinds of functions and statistical laws deal with their frequencies, thus complementing one another since classical laws deal with functions and statistical laws deal with the ideal frequencies with which those functions behave. Both laws are 'forms,' if by 'form' we mean an intelligibility. But I they are quite different and distinguishable types of intelligibilities or I 'forms.'

() ... Statistical scientists intend to explain what probably will happen next year or in ten years by generalizing from what has happened during the last ten or twenty years. Such scientific procedures produced a revolution in scientific thinking; scientific laws were considered to be, not norms for what might happen, but a prediction about what necessarily will happen. What classical scientists failed to realize was that, in formulating their laws, they had abstracted from certain aspects of concrete observable experiences that provided the field for statistical inquiry.

() ... Gradually, as statistical science advanced in the twentieth century, the notion of necessity as an intrinsic property of a law has faded, and in its place the complementarity of these two methods has emerged. To study this complementarity in still more detail, we will consider the technical notion of a scheme of recurrence.