Inventing the Universe: Plato's Timaeus, the Big Bang, and the Problem of Scientific Knowledge
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A parallel investigation of both Plato's Timaeusand the contemporary standard Big Bang model of the universe shows that any possible scientific knowledge of the universe is ultimately grounded in irreducible and undemonstrable propositions. These are inventions of the human mind. The scientific knowledge of the universe is entirely composed in a series of axioms and rules of inference underlying a formalized system. There is no logical relationship...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0791426920
ISBN13:9780791426920
Release Date:July 1995
Publisher:State University of New York Press
Length:193 Pages
Weight:0.65 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 6.8" x 8.5"
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