From: Chittaranjan Naik <chittaranjan_naik@yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, Aug 3, 2008 at 3:38 PM
Subject: [shivayoga] Science
To: Shivayoga@yahoogroups.com
1. Scientific theories are constructed to explain observed phenomena.
2. In order that a scientific theory may be called scientific, it
must first formulate a scientific proposition to explain the observed
fact. Such a scientific proposition, which is formulated in natural
language, is called the scientific hypothesis. The scientific
hypothesis must then be experimentally verified to check its
correspondence to observed facts before it is accepted as a
scientific theory.
3. The scientific theory remains accepted by the scientific community
as long as it is not falsified by new observed facts i.e., by new
experiments to verify that the theory is not falsified by new
observed facts. This is the positivist method of science.
4. In order that a scientific proposition may be experimentally
verified, it must be translated into a framework that makes it
amenable to be validated by experimental measurements. It must speak
the language of magnitudes or numbers.
5. The language of magnitudes or numbers is Mathematics.
6. The organic structure of the scientific framework is thus
displayed in the language that it employs: the languages of
mathematics.
7. The elements or signs of the language of science, that is, of
mathematics, are variables, relations and operators. Its grammar is
its structural form. i.e. the structure of formulae.
8. Variables denote magnitudes, not substantial things. The language
of mathematics does not denote things as they are essentially, but
denote the magnitudes of things, or the relations between magnitudes
of things.
9. A thing, in substance, has no degree or magnitude, only its
qualifying attribute has.
10. Magnitudes indicate degrees of extension or intention of a
qualifying attribute. Magnitudes do not denote the qualifying
attribute, or the essence of the qualifying attribute.
11. Variables, therefore, say nothing whatsoever of what a thing is,
or what its quality is, but only about the extent to which the
attribute of the thing is.
12. The extent to which an attribute is, indicates something about
its manifest form, though not of its essence.
14. Even though variables do not indicate what a thing is, its values
indicate how the thing actualises by denoting the changes of its
formal extent or degree.
15. Scientific frameworks are thus descriptions of the abstract
dynamism of things without being descriptions of the things or the
essences of things.
16. There is no formalism in science to determine the nature of
objects or the essences of objects. This is left to imagination and
speculative thought. And imagination and speculation is prone to
levitate into the ether of illusion.
Chitta
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