Tag: Bas C van Fraassen
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DNA to represent proteins
Recently I have read Bas C van Fraassen Scientific Representation: Paradoxes of Perspective where a representation is defined as p. 21 “Z uses X to depict Y as F” Does it make sense to say “Z uses” when Z is not a human being? For example, what is a meaning of a sentence “a robot…
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Rainbow as Public Hallucinations
From Bas C van Fraassen Scientific Representation: Paradoxes of Perspective p. 98 ‘The ‘window into the invisible world’ metaphor has dominated modern philosophical thinking about science as much as the «mirror of nature» metaphor dominated modern epistemology and metaphysics. It will serve us better to dislodge or at least weaken its grip on philosophical discourses,…