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1 Science
It is a common notion, or at least it is implied in many common modes of speech, that the thoughts, feelings, and actions of sentient beings are not a subject of science.... This notion seems to involve some confusion of ideas, which it is necessary to begin by clearing up. Any facts are fitted, in themselves, to be a subject of science, which follow one another according to constant laws; although those laws may not have been discovered, nor even to be discoverable by our existing resources. (Mill, 1900, B. VI, Chap. 3, Sec. 1)One class of natural philosophers has always a tendency to combine the phenomena and to discover their analogies; another class, on the contrary, employs all its efforts in showing the disparities of things. Both tendencies are necessary for the perfection of science, the one for its progress, the other for its correctness. The philosophers of the first of these classes are guided by the sense of unity throughout nature; the philosophers of the second have their minds more directed towards the certainty of our knowledge. The one are absorbed in search of principles, and neglect often the peculiarities, and not seldom the strictness of demonstration; the other consider the science only as the investigation of facts, but in their laudable zeal they often lose sight of the harmony of the whole, which is the character of truth. Those who look for the stamp of divinity on every thing around them, consider the opposite pursuits as ignoble and even as irreligious; while those who are engaged in the search after truth, look upon the other as unphilosophical enthusiasts, and perhaps as phantastical contemners of truth.... This conflict of opinions keeps science alive, and promotes it by an oscillatory progress. (Oersted, 1920, p. 352)Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone. (Einstein & Infeld, 1938, p. 27)A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. (Planck, 1949, pp. 33-34)[Original quotation: "Eine neue wissenschaftliche Wahrheit pflegt sich nicht in der Weise durchzusetzen, dass ihre Gegner ueberzeugt werden und sich as belehrt erklaeren, sondern vielmehr dadurch, dass die Gegner allmaehlich aussterben und dass die heranwachsende Generation von vornherein mit der Wahrheit vertraut gemacht ist." (Planck, 1990, p. 15)]I had always looked upon the search for the absolute as the noblest and most worth while task of science. (Planck, 1949, p. 46)If you cannot-in the long run-tell everyone what you have been doing, your doing has been worthless. (SchroЁdinger, 1951, pp. 7-8)Even for the physicist the description in plain language will be a criterion of the degree of understanding that has been reached. (Heisenberg, 1958, p. 168)The old scientific ideal of episteґmeґ-of absolutely certain, demonstrable knowledge-has proved to be an idol. The demand for scientific objectivity makes it inevitable that every scientific statement must remain tentative forever. It may indeed be corroborated, but every corroboration is relative to other statements which, again, are tentative. Only in our subjective experiences of conviction, in our subjective faith, can we be "absolutely certain." (Popper, 1959, p. 280)The layman, taught to revere scientists for their absolute respect for the observed facts, and for the judiciously detached and purely provisional manner in which they hold scientific theories (always ready to abandon a theory at the sight of any contradictory evidence) might well have thought that, at Miller's announcement of this overwhelming evidence of a "positive effect" [indicating that the speed of light is not independent from the motion of the observer, as Einstein's theory of relativity demands] in his presidential address to the American Physical Society on December 29th, 1925, his audience would have instantly abandoned the theory of relativity. Or, at the very least, that scientists-wont to look down from the pinnacle of their intellectual humility upon the rest of dogmatic mankind-might suspend judgment in this matter until Miller's results could be accounted for without impairing the theory of relativity. But no: by that time they had so well closed their minds to any suggestion which threatened the new rationality achieved by Einstein's world-picture, that it was almost impossible for them to think again in different terms. Little attention was paid to the experiments, the evidence being set aside in the hope that it would one day turn out to be wrong. (Polanyi, 1958, pp. 12-13)The practice of normal science depends on the ability, acquired from examplars, to group objects and situations into similarity sets which are primitive in the sense that the grouping is done without an answer to the question, "Similar with respect to what?" (Kuhn, 1970, p. 200)Science in general... does not consist in collecting what we already know and arranging it in this or that kind of pattern. It consists in fastening upon something we do not know, and trying to discover it. (Collingwood, 1972, p. 9)Scientific fields emerge as the concerns of scientists congeal around various phenomena. Sciences are not defined, they are recognized. (Newell, 1973a, p. 1)This is often the way it is in physics-our mistake is not that we take our theories too seriously, but that we do not take them seriously enough. I do not think it is possible really to understand the successes of science without understanding how hard it is-how easy it is to be led astray, how difficult it is to know at any time what is the next thing to be done. (Weinberg, 1977, p. 49)Science is wonderful at destroying metaphysical answers, but incapable of providing substitute ones. Science takes away foundations without providing a replacement. Whether we want to be there or not, science has put us in a position of having to live without foundations. It was shocking when Nietzsche said this, but today it is commonplace; our historical position-and no end to it is in sight-is that of having to philosophize without "foundations." (Putnam, 1987, p. 29)Historical dictionary of quotations in cognitive science > Science
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2 прогресс науки
Русско-Английский новый экономический словарь > прогресс науки
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3 tərəqqi
progresselmi tərəqqi – the progress of sciencetərəqqi etmək – progress, advancetərəqqipərvər – progressive -
4 adelanto
m.1 advance.2 money in advance, earnest money.pres.indicat.1st person singular (yo) present indicative of spanish verb: adelantar.* * *1 (avance) advance2 (tiempo) advance■ el primero lleva diez minutos de adelanto al segundo the first has ten minutes' lead over the second3 (pago) advance; (técnicamente) advance payment* * *noun m.1) advance, progress* * *SM1) (=progreso)a) (=acción) advancement; (=resultado) step forwardb) pl adelantos (=descubrimientos) advances2) [en tiempo]han conseguido el adelanto de la edad de jubilación — they have managed to get the retirement age lowered
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de adelanto, con una hora de adelanto — an hour earlyllevaba tres minutos de adelanto sobre el segundo corredor — he had a three-minute lead over the runner in second place
3) [de información]el artículo es solo un adelanto de su próximo libro — the article is just a taster of his latest book
4) [de dinero] (=anticipo) advance; (=depósito) deposit5) (Ajedrez) (=movimiento) forward move* * *1) ( avance) step forward2) ( del sueldo) advance; ( depósito) deposit3) ( en el tiempo)lleva un adelanto de tres minutos con respecto a los otros corredores — he has a three minute lead over the rest of the field
llegó con un poco de adelanto — he/she/it arrived slightly early
* * *= breakthrough [break-through], advance.Ex. With the exception of a few prescient observers, most predictions of the 20th century overlooked such breakthroughs as the computer.Ex. As soon as the advance was paid however the manager did a bunk with the money, around £100000, and was never seen nor heard of again.* * *1) ( avance) step forward2) ( del sueldo) advance; ( depósito) deposit3) ( en el tiempo)lleva un adelanto de tres minutos con respecto a los otros corredores — he has a three minute lead over the rest of the field
llegó con un poco de adelanto — he/she/it arrived slightly early
* * *= breakthrough [break-through], advance.Ex: With the exception of a few prescient observers, most predictions of the 20th century overlooked such breakthroughs as the computer.
Ex: As soon as the advance was paid however the manager did a bunk with the money, around £100000, and was never seen nor heard of again.* * *A (avance) advancelos adelantos de la ciencia the advances of sciencecon los adelantos de hoy en día no existen las distancias advances in modern day communications mean that distances no longer mean anythinglos ordenadores suponen un gran adelanto computers represent a great step forwardel sistema de los cajeros automáticos fue un gran adelanto the automatic cash dispenser system was a huge breakthrough o step forwardB (del sueldo) advance; (depósito) depositpidió un adelanto she asked for an advancehay que abonar un adelanto del 10% you have to pay a 10% depositC(en el tiempo): lleva un adelanto de tres minutos con respecto a los otros corredores he has a three minute lead over the rest of the field, he is three minutes ahead of the rest of the fieldel tren llegó con un poco de adelanto the train arrived slightly o a little early* * *
Del verbo adelantar: ( conjugate adelantar)
adelanto es:
1ª persona singular (yo) presente indicativo
adelantó es:
3ª persona singular (él/ella/usted) pretérito indicativo
Multiple Entries:
adelantar
adelanto
adelantar ( conjugate adelantar) verbo transitivo
1
b) ‹pieza/ficha› to move … forward
2 ( sobrepasar) to overtake, pass
3
4 ( conseguir) to gain;
verbo intransitivo
1
2 (Auto) to pass, overtake (BrE)
adelantarse verbo pronominal
1
2
[verano/frío] to arrive early
3 ( anticiparse):
adelantose a los acontecimientos to jump the gun;
yo iba a pagar, pero él se me adelantó I was going to pay, but he beat me to it
adelanto sustantivo masculino
1 ( avance) step forward;
2 ( del sueldo) advance;
( depósito) deposit
3 ( en el tiempo):◊ llegó con un poco de adelanto he/she/it arrived slightly early
adelantar
I verbo transitivo
1 to move o bring forward
(un reloj) to put forward
figurado to advance: no adelantas nada ocultándoselo, you won't get anything by concealing it from him
2 (sobrepasar a un coche, a alguien) to overtake
3 (una fecha, una convocatoria) to bring forward
fig (hacer predicciones) adelantar acontecimientos, to get ahead of oneself
no adelantemos acontecimientos, let's not cross the bridge before we come to it
II verbo intransitivo
1 to advance
2 (progresar) to make progress: hemos adelantado mucho en una hora, we've made a lot of progress in one hour
3 (reloj) to be fast
adelanto sustantivo masculino
1 advance
(mejora, progreso) progress
2 (de tiempo) este reloj lleva cinco minutos de adelanto, this watch is five minutes fast
3 (de sueldo) advance payment
' adelanto' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
adelantarse
- anticipo
- adelantar
- avance
- competencia
- progreso
English:
advance
- early
* * *adelanto nm1. [de dinero] advance;pidió un adelanto del sueldo she asked for an advance on her wages2. [técnico] advance;este descubrimiento supone un gran adelanto this discovery is a great advance;utilizan los últimos adelantos tecnológicos they use the latest technological advances o developments3. [de noticia] advance notice;un adelanto del programa de festejos a preview of the programme of celebrations4. [de reunión, viaje] bringing forward;el gobierno anunció el adelanto de las elecciones the government announced that it was bringing forward the date of the elections5. [anticipación]el tren llegó con (diez minutos de) adelanto the train arrived (ten minutes) early;el proyecto lleva dos días de adelanto the project is two days ahead of schedule* * *m tbCOM advance;adelantos advances* * *adelanto nm1) : advance, progress2) : advance payment3) : earlinessllevamos una hora de adelanto: we're running an hour ahead of time* * *adelanto n advance -
5 postęp
m (G postępu) 1. (zmiana na lepsze) progress U- postęp gospodarczy/techniczny economic/technological progress- postęp cywilizacyjny the progress of civilization- postęp w naukach medycznych progress in medical science- postępy nauki i techniki the progress of science and technology- obserwujemy stały postęp w dziedzinie telekomunikacji telecommunications technology is developing all the time- w ostatnich latach w tej dziedzinie dokonał się a. nastąpił olbrzymi postęp this area has progressed rapidly over recent years- postępy w nauce progress in learning- czynić a. robić postępy w angielskim/jeździe na nartach to make progress in English/skiing- postępy w rozmowach pokojowych some progress in peace talks- śledzić postępy terapii to monitor the progress of a treatment- premier jest na bieżąco informowany o postępach w negocjacjach the Prime Minister is kept informed on the progress of the negotiations- powiedział mi dzień dobry, to już postęp he said hello to me, now, that’s an improvement!2. sgt Mat. progression- postęp arytmetyczny/geometryczny an arithmetic/a geometric progression- zwiększać się w postępie geometrycznym przen. to increase exponentially a. at an exponential rate* * *- postępy* * *mi1. (= rozwój) progress, advance, development; postęp cywilizacyjny civilization progress; postęp nauki l. naukowy scientific progress, advances in science; postęp techniczny technological progress; iść z postępem keep up l. move with the times, keep abreast of the times.2. (= wzrost, osiągnięcie kolejnego stadium rozwoju) development, growth; postępy choroby development of disease; robić postępy w nauce niemieckiego make progress in learning German, make headway in German; postęp arytmetyczny mat. arithmetic progression; postęp geometryczny mat. geometric progression.3. górn. progress, advance; postęp ściany wall advance.The New English-Polish, Polish-English Kościuszko foundation dictionary > postęp
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6 Jobard, Jean-Baptiste-Ambroise Marcelin
SUBJECT AREA: Mining and extraction technology[br]b. 14 May 1792 Baissey, Haute-Marne, Franced. 27 October 1861 Brussels, Belgium[br]French technologist, promoter of Belgian industry.[br]After attending schools in Langres and Dijon, Jobard worked in Groningen and Maastricht as a cadastral officer from 1811 onwards. After the Netherlands had been constituted as a new state in 1814, he became a Dutch citizen in 1815 and settled in Brussels. In 1825, when he had learned of the invention of lithography by Alois Senefelder, he retired and established a renowned lithographic workshop in Belgium, with considerable commercial profit. After the political changes which led to the separation of Belgium from the Netherlands in 1830, he devoted his activities to the progress of science and industry in this country, in the traditional idea of enlightenment. His main aim was to promote all branches of the young economy, to which he contributed with ceaseless energy. He cultivated especially the transfer of technology in many articles he wrote on his various journeys, such as to Britain, France, Germany and Switzerland, and he continued to do so when he became the Director of the Museum of Industry in Brussels in 1841, editing its Bulletin until his death. Jobard, as a member of societies for the encouragement of arts and industry in many countries, published on almost any subject and produced many inventions. Being a restless character by nature, and having, in addition, a strong attitude towards designing and constructing, he also contributed to mining technology in 1828 when he was the first European to practise successfully the Chinese method of rope drilling near Brussels.[br]Bibliography1840, Plan d'organisation du Musée de l'industrie, présenté au Ministre de l'interieur, Brussels.1844, Machines à vapeur, arrêtes et instructions, Brussels.1846, Comment la Belgique peut devenir industrielle, à propos de la Société d'exportation, Brussels.considérées comme blason de l'industrie et du commerce, dédié à la Société des inventeurs et protecteurs de l'industrie, Brussels.1855, Discours prononcé à l'assemblée des industriels réunis pour l'adoption de la marque obligatoire, Paris.Further ReadingH.Blémont, 1991, article in Dictionnaire de biographie française, Paris, pp. 676–7 (for a short account of his life).A.Siret, 1888–9, article in Biographie nationale de belgique, Vol. X, Brussels, col. 494– 500 (provides an impressive description of his restless character and a selected bibliography of his many publications.T.Tecklenburg, 1900, Handbuch der Tiefbohrkunde, 2nd edn, Vol. IV, Berlin, pp. 7–8 (contains detailed information on his method of rope drilling).WKBiographical history of technology > Jobard, Jean-Baptiste-Ambroise Marcelin
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7 успехи в области науки
General subject: the progress of scienceУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > успехи в области науки
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8 продиктован
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9 ход развития
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10 progrès
progrès [pʀɔgʀε]masculine noun• être en progrès [élève, résultats] to be improving• hier, le dollar était en net progrès yesterday the dollar rose sharply• c'est le progrès ! that's progress!* * *pʀɔgʀɛnom masculin invariable1) ( pas en avant) progress [U]être en progrès — [personne] to be making progress; [résultats] to be improving
il y a du progrès! — (colloq) things are improving!
2) ( résultat chiffré) increaseêtre en progrès de 10% — to be up by 10%
3) ( concept)on n'arrête pas le progrès! — iron that's progress for you!
4) ( de maladie) progression; ( d'homme politique) progress; ( d'armée) advance* * *pʀɔɡʀɛ nmprogress no pl* * *progrès nm inv1 ( pas en avant) ( de personne) progress ¢; (de recherche, technique, science) progress ¢, advance; (d'enquête, affaire, de négociation) progress ¢; marquer un progrès dans le domaine technique to mark an advance in the field of technology; les progrès de la médecine/de l'informatique advances in medicine/in computer technology; faire des progrès to make progress; être en progrès [personne] to be making progress; [résultats] to be improving; être en net/en léger progrès to be making clear/slight progress; il y a du progrès○! things are improving!;2 ( résultat chiffré) increase; afficher un progrès de 2% to show an increase of 2%; être en progrès de 10% to be up by 10%;[prɔgrɛ] nom masculin1. [amélioration] progressêtre en progrès to (make) progress, to improveil y a du progrès, continuez that's better, keep it uple XXe siècle a connu de grands progrès scientifiques the 20th century has witnessed some great scientific breakthroughs3. [développement]a. [incendie] the progress ofb. [criminalité] the upsurge ou increase inc. [maladie] the progress ou progression of -
11 тормозит развитие науки
1. slow down progress of scienceучёный; человек науки — man of science
2. slowing down progress of scienceРусско-английский военно-политический словарь > тормозит развитие науки
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12 технический прогресс
1. mechanical advance2. technical advance3. technical progress4. technological change5. technological progressРусско-английский большой базовый словарь > технический прогресс
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13 progresso
m progressfare progressi make progress* * *progresso s.m. progress [U], advance; ( perfezionamento) improvement: il progresso della civiltà, della scienza, the progress (o advance) of civilization, of science; il progresso dei lavori, the progress of work; (comm.) progresso nelle vendite, increase in sales; il progresso di una malattia, the progress of a disease; non si è registrato alcun progresso, no progress (o headway) has been made; credere nel progresso, to believe in progress; non puoi arrestare il progresso, you can't stop progress; un paese sulla via del progresso, a developing country; fare progressi in qlco., to make progress (o headway) in sthg. (o to improve in sthg.): ha fatto notevoli progressi in tedesco, he has made a great deal of progress in German.* * *[pro'grɛsso]sostantivo maschile1) progress U, improvementfare (dei) -i — [ persona] to make progress, to come along, to get ahead
2) (di malattia) progress U* * *progresso/pro'grεsso/sostantivo m.1 progress U, improvement; i recenti -i in campo medico recent advances in medicine; grandi -i della chirurgia major developments in surgery; fare (dei) -i [ persona] to make progress, to come along, to get ahead; ha fatto -i in matematica he has made some improvement in maths2 (di malattia) progress U. -
14 проанализировать достигнутый прогресс
1. reviewing the progress madeнаука в своём развитии, прогресс науки — science on the move
2. review the progress madeРусско-английский военно-политический словарь > проанализировать достигнутый прогресс
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15 Mind
It becomes, therefore, no inconsiderable part of science... to know the different operations of the mind, to separate them from each other, to class them under their proper heads, and to correct all that seeming disorder in which they lie involved when made the object of reflection and inquiry.... It cannot be doubted that the mind is endowed with several powers and faculties, that these powers are distinct from one another, and that what is really distinct to the immediate perception may be distinguished by reflection and, consequently, that there is a truth and falsehood which lie not beyond the compass of human understanding. (Hume, 1955, p. 22)Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, white Paper, void of all Characters, without any Ideas: How comes it to be furnished? Whence comes it by that vast store, which the busy and boundless Fancy of Man has painted on it, with an almost endless variety? Whence has it all the materials of Reason and Knowledge? To this I answer, in one word, from Experience. (Locke, quoted in Herrnstein & Boring, 1965, p. 584)The kind of logic in mythical thought is as rigorous as that of modern science, and... the difference lies, not in the quality of the intellectual process, but in the nature of things to which it is applied.... Man has always been thinking equally well; the improvement lies, not in an alleged progress of man's mind, but in the discovery of new areas to which it may apply its unchanged and unchanging powers. (Leґvi-Strauss, 1963, p. 230)MIND. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain. Its chief activity consists in the endeavor to ascertain its own nature, the futility of the attempt being due to the fact that it has nothing but itself to know itself with. (Bierce, quoted in Minsky, 1986, p. 55)[Philosophy] understands the foundations of knowledge and it finds these foundations in a study of man-as-knower, of the "mental processes" or the "activity of representation" which make knowledge possible. To know is to represent accurately what is outside the mind, so to understand the possibility and nature of knowledge is to understand the way in which the mind is able to construct such representation.... We owe the notion of a "theory of knowledge" based on an understanding of "mental processes" to the seventeenth century, and especially to Locke. We owe the notion of "the mind" as a separate entity in which "processes" occur to the same period, and especially to Descartes. We owe the notion of philosophy as a tribunal of pure reason, upholding or denying the claims of the rest of culture, to the eighteenth century and especially to Kant, but this Kantian notion presupposed general assent to Lockean notions of mental processes and Cartesian notions of mental substance. (Rorty, 1979, pp. 3-4)Under pressure from the computer, the question of mind in relation to machine is becoming a central cultural preoccupation. It is becoming for us what sex was to Victorians-threat, obsession, taboo, and fascination. (Turkle, 1984, p. 313)7) Understanding the Mind Remains as Resistant to Neurological as to Cognitive AnalysesRecent years have been exciting for researchers in the brain and cognitive sciences. Both fields have flourished, each spurred on by methodological and conceptual developments, and although understanding the mechanisms of mind is an objective shared by many workers in these areas, their theories and approaches to the problem are vastly different....Early experimental psychologists, such as Wundt and James, were as interested in and knowledgeable about the anatomy and physiology of the nervous system as about the young science of the mind. However, the experimental study of mental processes was short-lived, being eclipsed by the rise of behaviorism early in this century. It was not until the late 1950s that the signs of a new mentalism first appeared in scattered writings of linguists, philosophers, computer enthusiasts, and psychologists.In this new incarnation, the science of mind had a specific mission: to challenge and replace behaviorism. In the meantime, brain science had in many ways become allied with a behaviorist approach.... While behaviorism sought to reduce the mind to statements about bodily action, brain science seeks to explain the mind in terms of physiochemical events occurring in the nervous system. These approaches contrast with contemporary cognitive science, which tries to understand the mind as it is, without any reduction, a view sometimes described as functionalism.The cognitive revolution is now in place. Cognition is the subject of contemporary psychology. This was achieved with little or no talk of neurons, action potentials, and neurotransmitters. Similarly, neuroscience has risen to an esteemed position among the biological sciences without much talk of cognitive processes. Do the fields need each other?... [Y]es because the problem of understanding the mind, unlike the wouldbe problem solvers, respects no disciplinary boundaries. It remains as resistant to neurological as to cognitive analyses. (LeDoux & Hirst, 1986, pp. 1-2)Since the Second World War scientists from different disciplines have turned to the study of the human mind. Computer scientists have tried to emulate its capacity for visual perception. Linguists have struggled with the puzzle of how children acquire language. Ethologists have sought the innate roots of social behaviour. Neurophysiologists have begun to relate the function of nerve cells to complex perceptual and motor processes. Neurologists and neuropsychologists have used the pattern of competence and incompetence of their brain-damaged patients to elucidate the normal workings of the brain. Anthropologists have examined the conceptual structure of cultural practices to advance hypotheses about the basic principles of the mind. These days one meets engineers who work on speech perception, biologists who investigate the mental representation of spatial relations, and physicists who want to understand consciousness. And, of course, psychologists continue to study perception, memory, thought and action.... [W]orkers in many disciplines have converged on a number of central problems and explanatory ideas. They have realized that no single approach is likely to unravel the workings of the mind: it will not give up its secrets to psychology alone; nor is any other isolated discipline-artificial intelligence, linguistics, anthropology, neurophysiology, philosophy-going to have any greater success. (Johnson-Laird, 1988, p. 7)Historical dictionary of quotations in cognitive science > Mind
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16 Philosophy
And what I believe to be more important here is that I find in myself an infinity of ideas of certain things which cannot be assumed to be pure nothingness, even though they may have perhaps no existence outside of my thought. These things are not figments of my imagination, even though it is within my power to think of them or not to think of them; on the contrary, they have their own true and immutable natures. Thus, for example, when I imagine a triangle, even though there may perhaps be no such figure anywhere in the world outside of my thought, nor ever have been, nevertheless the figure cannot help having a certain determinate nature... or essence, which is immutable and eternal, which I have not invented and which does not in any way depend upon my mind. (Descartes, 1951, p. 61)Let us console ourselves for not knowing the possible connections between a spider and the rings of Saturn, and continue to examine what is within our reach. (Voltaire, 1961, p. 144)As modern physics started with the Newtonian revolution, so modern philosophy starts with what one might call the Cartesian Catastrophe. The catastrophe consisted in the splitting up of the world into the realms of matter and mind, and the identification of "mind" with conscious thinking. The result of this identification was the shallow rationalism of l'esprit Cartesien, and an impoverishment of psychology which it took three centuries to remedy even in part. (Koestler, 1964, p. 148)It has been made of late a reproach against natural philosophy that it has struck out on a path of its own, and has separated itself more and more widely from the other sciences which are united by common philological and historical studies. The opposition has, in fact, been long apparent, and seems to me to have grown up mainly under the influence of the Hegelian philosophy, or, at any rate, to have been brought out into more distinct relief by that philosophy.... The sole object of Kant's "Critical Philosophy" was to test the sources and the authority of our knowledge, and to fix a definite scope and standard for the researches of philosophy, as compared with other sciences.... [But Hegel's] "Philosophy of Identity" was bolder. It started with the hypothesis that not only spiritual phenomena, but even the actual world-nature, that is, and man-were the result of an act of thought on the part of a creative mind, similar, it was supposed, in kind to the human mind.... The philosophers accused the scientific men of narrowness; the scientific men retorted that the philosophers were crazy. And so it came about that men of science began to lay some stress on the banishment of all philosophic influences from their work; while some of them, including men of the greatest acuteness, went so far as to condemn philosophy altogether, not merely as useless, but as mischievous dreaming. Thus, it must be confessed, not only were the illegitimate pretensions of the Hegelian system to subordinate to itself all other studies rejected, but no regard was paid to the rightful claims of philosophy, that is, the criticism of the sources of cognition, and the definition of the functions of the intellect. (Helmholz, quoted in Dampier, 1966, pp. 291-292)Philosophy remains true to its classical tradition by renouncing it. (Habermas, 1972, p. 317)I have not attempted... to put forward any grand view of the nature of philosophy; nor do I have any such grand view to put forth if I would. It will be obvious that I do not agree with those who see philosophy as the history of "howlers" and progress in philosophy as the debunking of howlers. It will also be obvious that I do not agree with those who see philosophy as the enterprise of putting forward a priori truths about the world.... I see philosophy as a field which has certain central questions, for example, the relation between thought and reality.... It seems obvious that in dealing with these questions philosophers have formulated rival research programs, that they have put forward general hypotheses, and that philosophers within each major research program have modified their hypotheses by trial and error, even if they sometimes refuse to admit that that is what they are doing. To that extent philosophy is a "science." To argue about whether philosophy is a science in any more serious sense seems to me to be hardly a useful occupation.... It does not seem to me important to decide whether science is philosophy or philosophy is science as long as one has a conception of both that makes both essential to a responsible view of the world and of man's place in it. (Putnam, 1975, p. xvii)What can philosophy contribute to solving the problem of the relation [of] mind to body? Twenty years ago, many English-speaking philosophers would have answered: "Nothing beyond an analysis of the various mental concepts." If we seek knowledge of things, they thought, it is to science that we must turn. Philosophy can only cast light upon our concepts of those things.This retreat from things to concepts was not undertaken lightly. Ever since the seventeenth century, the great intellectual fact of our culture has been the incredible expansion of knowledge both in the natural and in the rational sciences (mathematics, logic).The success of science created a crisis in philosophy. What was there for philosophy to do? Hume had already perceived the problem in some degree, and so surely did Kant, but it was not until the twentieth century, with the Vienna Circle and with Wittgenstein, that the difficulty began to weigh heavily. Wittgenstein took the view that philosophy could do no more than strive to undo the intellectual knots it itself had tied, so achieving intellectual release, and even a certain illumination, but no knowledge. A little later, and more optimistically, Ryle saw a positive, if reduced role, for philosophy in mapping the "logical geography" of our concepts: how they stood to each other and how they were to be analyzed....Since that time, however, philosophers in the "analytic" tradition have swung back from Wittgensteinian and even Rylean pessimism to a more traditional conception of the proper role and tasks of philosophy. Many analytic philosophers now would accept the view that the central task of philosophy is to give an account, or at least play a part in giving an account, of the most general nature of things and of man. (Armstrong, 1990, pp. 37-38)8) Philosophy's Evolving Engagement with Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive ScienceIn the beginning, the nature of philosophy's engagement with artificial intelligence and cognitive science was clear enough. The new sciences of the mind were to provide the long-awaited vindication of the most potent dreams of naturalism and materialism. Mind would at last be located firmly within the natural order. We would see in detail how the most perplexing features of the mental realm could be supported by the operations of solely physical laws upon solely physical stuff. Mental causation (the power of, e.g., a belief to cause an action) would emerge as just another species of physical causation. Reasoning would be understood as a kind of automated theorem proving. And the key to both was to be the depiction of the brain as the implementation of multiple higher level programs whose task was to manipulate and transform symbols or representations: inner items with one foot in the physical (they were realized as brain states) and one in the mental (they were bearers of contents, and their physical gymnastics were cleverly designed to respect semantic relationships such as truth preservation). (A. Clark, 1996, p. 1)Socrates of Athens famously declared that "the unexamined life is not worth living," and his motto aptly explains the impulse to philosophize. Taking nothing for granted, philosophy probes and questions the fundamental presuppositions of every area of human inquiry.... [P]art of the job of the philosopher is to keep at a certain critical distance from current doctrines, whether in the sciences or the arts, and to examine instead how the various elements in our world-view clash, or fit together. Some philosophers have tried to incorporate the results of these inquiries into a grand synoptic view of the nature of reality and our human relationship to it. Others have mistrusted system-building, and seen their primary role as one of clarifications, or the removal of obstacles along the road to truth. But all have shared the Socratic vision of using the human intellect to challenge comfortable preconceptions, insisting that every aspect of human theory and practice be subjected to continuing critical scrutiny....Philosophy is, of course, part of a continuing tradition, and there is much to be gained from seeing how that tradition originated and developed. But the principal object of studying the materials in this book is not to pay homage to past genius, but to enrich one's understanding of central problems that are as pressing today as they have always been-problems about knowledge, truth and reality, the nature of the mind, the basis of right action, and the best way to live. These questions help to mark out the territory of philosophy as an academic discipline, but in a wider sense they define the human predicament itself; they will surely continue to be with us for as long as humanity endures. (Cottingham, 1996, pp. xxi-xxii)10) The Distinction between Dionysian Man and Apollonian Man, between Art and Creativity and Reason and Self- ControlIn his study of ancient Greek culture, The Birth of Tragedy, Nietzsche drew what would become a famous distinction, between the Dionysian spirit, the untamed spirit of art and creativity, and the Apollonian, that of reason and self-control. The story of Greek civilization, and all civilizations, Nietzsche implied, was the gradual victory of Apollonian man, with his desire for control over nature and himself, over Dionysian man, who survives only in myth, poetry, music, and drama. Socrates and Plato had attacked the illusions of art as unreal, and had overturned the delicate cultural balance by valuing only man's critical, rational, and controlling consciousness while denigrating his vital life instincts as irrational and base. The result of this division is "Alexandrian man," the civilized and accomplished Greek citizen of the later ancient world, who is "equipped with the greatest forces of knowledge" but in whom the wellsprings of creativity have dried up. (Herman, 1997, pp. 95-96)Historical dictionary of quotations in cognitive science > Philosophy
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17 Entwicklung
f1. development; von Ideen, Tierarten, Verfahren etc.: auch evolution; neuer Produkte: auch research (+ Gen on oder into); von Kenntnissen: advancement, furthering; in der Entwicklung sein be developing; Kind: auch be growing, be at the ( oder a) formative stage; Verfahren etc.: be at the development stage, be under ( oder in the course of) development; zur Entwicklung bringen develop; (Anlagen etc.) auch bring out ( oder on); in der Entwicklung zurückgeblieben sein körperlich: be physically underdeveloped, be a late developer (physically); in der Entwicklung zurückgebliebene Kinder retarded ( oder special needs) children; geistig: mentally retarded children; lernbehindert: children with a learning disability3. (Erzeugung) generation, production* * *die Entwicklungevolution; deployment; development; evolvement* * *Ent|wịck|lungf -, -endevelopment; (von Methoden, Verfahren, Gattung auch) evolution; (MATH von Formel auch) expansion; (= Erzeugung, CHEM von Gasen etc) production, generation; (von Mut, Energie) show, display; (PHOT) developing; (esp von Diapositiven) processingdas Flugzeug ist noch in der Entwicklung — the plane is still being developed, the plane is still in the development stage
Jugendliche, die noch in der Entwicklung sind — young people who are still in their adolescence or still developing
* * *die1) (the process or act of developing: a crucial stage in the development of a child.) development2) (something new which is the result of developing: important new developments in science.) development3) (gradual working out or development: the evolution of our form of government.) evolution4) (a general tendency towards a habit, point of view etc: There's a movement towards simple designs in clothing these days.) movement5) (movement forward; advance: the progress of civilization.) progress* * *Ent·wick·lung<-, -en>f1. (das Entwickeln) developmentin der \Entwicklung in one's [or during] adolescence2. (das Entwerfen) eines Plans, einer Theorie evolution, development3. FOTO development, processing4. (das Vorankommen) progress, progressiondie \Entwicklung der Verhandlungen wird positiv beurteilt the negotiations are judged to be progressing positivelydie \Entwicklung eines Landes the development of a countrydie \Entwicklung entzündlicher Flüssigkeiten the production of inflammable liquids7. ÖKON, POL trendeine rückläufige \Entwicklung der Arbeitslosenzahlen a falling trend in unemployment figures* * *die; Entwicklung, Entwicklungen1) (auch Fot.) developmentin der Entwicklung sein — < young person> be adolescent or in one's adolescence
in seiner [körperlichen] Entwicklung zurückbleiben — be physically underdeveloped
etwas befindet sich in der Entwicklung — something is [still] in the development stage
2) (einer Theorie usw.) elaboration* * *1. development; von Ideen, Tierarten, Verfahren etc: auch evolution; neuer Produkte: auch research (+gen on oder into); von Kenntnissen: advancement, furthering;in der Entwicklung sein be developing; Kind: auch be growing, be at the ( oder a) formative stage; Verfahren etc: be at the development stage, be under ( oder in the course of) development;in der Entwicklung zurückgeblieben sein körperlich: be physically underdeveloped, be a late developer (physically);in der Entwicklung zurückgebliebene Kinder retarded ( oder special needs) children; geistig: mentally retarded children; lernbehindert: children with a learning disability3. (Erzeugung) generation, production* * *die; Entwicklung, Entwicklungen1) (auch Fot.) developmentin der Entwicklung sein — < young person> be adolescent or in one's adolescence
in seiner [körperlichen] Entwicklung zurückbleiben — be physically underdeveloped
etwas befindet sich in der Entwicklung — something is [still] in the development stage
2) (einer Theorie usw.) elaboration* * *f.development n.evolution n.expansion n.growth n.progress n. -
18 cammino
m : un'ora di cammino an hour's walkmettersi in cammino set out* * *cammino s.m.1 way; journey; ( percorso) route; path: qual è il cammino più breve?, what's the shortest way?; dopo un lungo cammino, after a long way; indicare il cammino a qlcu., to show s.o. the way (o route); riprendere il cammino, to resume one's journey; essere in cammino verso un luogo, to be on one's way towards a place; è a 10 minuti di cammino, it's ten minutes on foot; per tutto il cammino non incontrammo nessuno, we didn't meet anyone during the entire journey; fece un tratto di cammino con noi, he walked with us for a while; un cammino tortuoso, a winding road (o path o route); cammino battuto, well-trodden path // cammin facendo, on the way: cammin facendo lo incontrammo, we met him on the way // fare molto cammino, (fig.) to get on (o ahead o to go far) // lasciare il retto cammino, (fig.) to wander from the straight and narrow (o to go astray)2 (astr.) path, orbit3 (fig.) ( progresso) progress: il cammino della scienza, the march of science; il cammino dell'umanità, the progress of humanity.* * *[kam'mino]sostantivo maschile1) (camminata) walkmettersi in cammino — to take (to) the road, to set off ( verso for)
2) (strada, tragitto) way, roadtrovare un ostacolo sul proprio cammino — to find an obstacle in one's way o path (anche fig.)
3) (corso) (di astro, fiume) path, course4) fig. (condotta morale)5) fig. (sviluppo) march, progress* * *cammino/kam'mino/sostantivo m.2 (strada, tragitto) way, road; essere in cammino to be on the road; cammin facendo along the way; trovare un ostacolo sul proprio cammino to find an obstacle in one's way o path (anche fig.)3 (corso) (di astro, fiume) path, course5 fig. (sviluppo) march, progress. -
19 aurrerabide
iz.1.a. ( aurrerakada) headway, progress; \aurrerabideak dakarzkien aldakuntzak changes bringing about progress; berrogei urte hauetan zinemak egin duen \aurrerabidea the {progress || headway} cinema has made over the last forty years; -(r)i \aurrerabidea eman to pave the way for | to facilitate; \aurrerabideean aurreratua way ahead; gizartea aldatu beharra dago, bestela ez dago \aurrerabiderik society has to change or else there can be no progress; materialismoa gizakientzat \aurrerabidea handia balitzan bezala as if materialism were a great mark of progress for mankindb. ( hobekuntza) improvementc. ( bat-batekoa) breakthrough; internet eta beste \aurrerabideak the internet and other breakthroughsd. ( garapena, garabidea) development; sozialismoaren \aurrerabidea utopiatik zientziara the development of socialism from utopia to science2. ( pizgarria) stimulus -
20 nau|ka
f 1. sgt (wiedza) learning; (ścisła) science; (badania) research- nauka polska/światowa Polish/international academic research- człowiek nauki a scholar- gałąź/dziedzina nauki a branch/field of learning a. knowledge- świat nauki the world of science- gatunek nieznany nauce a species unknown a. new to science- poświęcić się nauce to devote oneself to research a. to scholarly pursuits- zajmować się nauką to be engaged in research a. academic work- zrobić coś dla dobra nauki to do sth in the interests of science- zwiększyć nakłady na naukę to increase spending on research2. (dziedzina) science- rozwój nauk ekonomicznych development of economics- nauki medyczne medical sciences- nauka o języku linguistics3. (teoria) theory, doctrine- nauka Freuda Freud’s theories a. theory- wiedza o wszechświecie oparta na nauce Ptolemeusza knowledge of the cosmos based on Ptolemy’s teachings4. Szkol. (edukacja) study, learning; (w szkole) schooling- nauka czytania i pisania learning to read and write- nauka gry na fortepianie learning to play the piano- nauka zawodu apprenticeship- oddać kogoś na naukę do krawca to apprentice sb to a tailor- nauka przychodziła jej łatwo/z trudem she was a quick a. fast/slow learner- łożyć na czyjąś naukę to pay for sb’s schooling- mieć trudności w nauce to have learning difficulties- oderwać się od nauki to tear oneself away from one’s studies- odnosić sukcesy w nauce to do well in one’s studies- przykładać się do nauki to apply oneself to study, to study diligently- robić postępy w nauce to make good progress with one’s studies- zaniedbywać się w nauce to neglect one’s studies- dzień wolny od nauki a day off school- jutro nie ma nauki (w szkole) there are no classes a. lessons tomorrow5. (morał) lesson- wyciągnąć naukę z przeszłości to draw a lesson from the past- nauka płynąca z bajki the moral of a fable- jaka z tego płynie nauka? what lesson can be drawn from that?6. Relig. sermon- wierni wysłuchali nauki biskupa the congregation listened to the bishop’s sermon- □ nauka Kościoła Relig. the Church’s teachings- nauka religii Relig. religious instruction a. education- nauki humanistyczne humanities, arts- nauki idiograficzne Filoz. idiographic sciences- nauki normatywne Filoz. normative sciences- nauki polityczne Polit. political science- nauki przyrodnicze natural sciences- nauki społeczne Socjol. social science(s)- nauki ścisłe exact sciences- nauki wyzwolone Hist. liberal arts■ nauka nie poszła w las przysł. the lesson has been learned a. hasn’t been forgotten a. hasn’t been wastedThe New English-Polish, Polish-English Kościuszko foundation dictionary > nau|ka
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