Science Generates Limit Paradoxes

Authors: Eric Dietrich Chris Fields

Publish Date: 2015/03/21

Volume: 25, Issue: 4, Pages: 409-432

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Abstract

The sciences occasionally generate discoveries that undermine their own assumptions Two such discoveries are characterized here the discovery of apophenia by cognitive psychology and the discovery that physical systems cannot be locally bounded within quantum theory It is shown that such discoveries have a common structure and that this common structure is an instance of Priest’s wellknown Inclosure Schema This demonstrates that science itself is dialetheic it generates limit paradoxes How science proceeds despite this fact is briefly discussed as is the connection between our results and the realismantirealism debate We conclude by suggesting a position of epistemic modesty

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