Fuzziness and Foundations of Exact and Inexact Sciences

• Main Author: Dompere, Kofi Kissi. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing, 290
• Subjects: Engineering.; Science > Philosophy.; Physics.; Operations research.; Computational Intelligence.; Philosophy of Science.; Complexity.; Operation Research/Decision Theory.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31122-2

The monograph is an examination of the fuzzy rational foundations of the structure of exact and inexact sciences over the epistemological space which is distinguished from the ontological space. It is thus concerned with the demarcation problem. It examines exact science and its critique of inexact...

Table of Contents:

• Exact Science, Its Critique of Inexact Science and Rationality in Vagueness
• The Laws of Thought and Exact Science
• The Primary Category, Derived Categories and Scientific World Pictures
• The Organization of Knowledge Production and the Defense of Inexact Sciences
• The Exactness of Inexact Science and the Organization of the Knowledge Production
• Zones of Thought: Reflections on the Theories of Truth.