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The Sciences Now Have Masks on Them |
| Section: MODERN THOUGHT / THE CHALLENGE OF MODERNITY |
| Author: Colin M. Turbayne |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/1986 |
| Size: 9,994 Words, 58,726 Characters |
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In this piece I try to do two things. First, in order to give content to the distinction between using metaphor and being used by it, I offer some illustrations of actual victims of metaphor from the history of science. My main examples are Descartes and Newton, two scientists who first invented or developed procedures for describing the process of nature and then confused ingredients of their procedures with the process they described. Second, in order to find a method that may help me to avoid the errors of these giants, I preset their methods in some detail.
More than others in modern times, Descartes and Newton have influenced the attitudes of subsequent scientists, philosophers, and ordinary people, so that our vision of the world remains largely a complication of the Newtoni...
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...ve sort-crossing, and are there fore metaphors. The conclusion of this section is the decision to try to adopt the actual technique of Plato and, in addition, to follow the advice of Cardinal Bellarmine. Then, whether we suppose that man is a state, or that the world is a machine, or that man is a wolf, the risk of confusing the facts of one sort with those of the other will be lessened.
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