Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book: Langer , Susanne Katherina Knauth (1957), Philosophy in a New Key; A Study in Inverse the Symbolism of Reason, Rite, and Art , Retrieved on 2012-06-08Source Material [books.google.com]
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08 JUN 2012
Direct Observation is Dead
The faith of scientists in the power and truth of mathematics is so implicit that their work has gradually become less and less observation, and more and more calculation. The promiscuous collection and tabulation of data have given way to a process of assigning possible meanings, merely supposed real entities, to mathematical terms, working out the logical results, and then staging certain crucial experiments to check the hypothesis against the actual empirical results. But the facts which a...Folksonomies: observation experimentation
Folksonomies: observation experimentation
Everything is through instruments now.