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Towards a Synthetization of the Sciences

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2022

Matthew L. Lamb
Matthew L. Lamb*
Affiliation:
Monastery, Conyers, Georgia
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Abstract

The rapidity with which new sciences are being formed and the older ones are becoming further specialized calls for a complementary effort to interrelate the sciences. A genuine synthetization must be completely open to all future discoveries and developments within science. Such an openness would be possible only if scientific understanding possesses certain invariable patterns according to which the synthetization could be constructed. Lonergan's Insight (New York, 1958) seems to have uncovered these basic and irrevisable patterns. Not only do they demonstrate the complementarity of classical and statistical methods but the isomorphic Emergent Probability operative in world-process may well provide the framework for an open synthetization. In the present essay this possibility is demonstrated by interrelating, according to it, certain generic fields of the scientific endeavor, from physics to cultural anthropology.

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Philosophy of Science , Volume 32 , Issue 2 , April 1965 , pp. 182 - 191
Copyright
Copyright © Philosophy of Science Association 1965

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