On Post-Empiricism doctrine and Neutrosophic way of doing science: From Principle of Parsimony to three examples in physics
Author: Victor Christianto
Publisher: Infinite Study
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Total Pages: 17
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKDespite majority of theoretical physicists begin to accept the post-empiricism doctrine, still few physicists and mathematicians alike don’t agree with such a doctrine, partly because it is against Popper’s criterion of falsifiability for any theory in physics and other sciences. And partly because criteria like beauty or elegance seem rather subjective for a theory to be accepted as “physics’. Physicists like Peter Woit and Sabine Hossenfelder have wrote books on this topics. In this article, we don’t repeat those arguments, we only argue in favor of principle of parsimony, or that Nature seems to prefer least action, or least energy either in modeling complexity, assumptions and free parameters involved, and minimizing calculational or computational entropy needed. Therefore, we arrive at conclusion that one shall fiind a balance among some criterion, of which we may call this point “Ockham optimality.”
