Knowledge of evolution and evolution of knowledge
(1981) p.129-151- Abstract
- It is argued that evolution goes beyond that which can be described in a well-defined language) and that it instead enforces a language that is itself evolving. Evolution is the unfolding of this self-reference. The unfolding methodology of the logician Alfred Tarski is taken as a basis for the
explicability of evolution. Looking at Tarski´s results as a linguistic complementarity, we get a view with the productivity of this complementarity as the srource of evolutionary phenomena. These extend to the biological domain upon recognition of life as an autolinguistic phenomenon.
In particular, a describability theory for induction (the epistemological counterpart to biological natural selection) is developed. It explains how... (More) - It is argued that evolution goes beyond that which can be described in a well-defined language) and that it instead enforces a language that is itself evolving. Evolution is the unfolding of this self-reference. The unfolding methodology of the logician Alfred Tarski is taken as a basis for the
explicability of evolution. Looking at Tarski´s results as a linguistic complementarity, we get a view with the productivity of this complementarity as the srource of evolutionary phenomena. These extend to the biological domain upon recognition of life as an autolinguistic phenomenon.
In particular, a describability theory for induction (the epistemological counterpart to biological natural selection) is developed. It explains how induction functions can exist, although not effectively describable. Furthermore, the so called Popper-Carnap controversy is found to have a natural
origin in the linguistic complementarity. Another question under philosophical debate, that of self-supporting rules of induction, is analyzed in terms of the describability theory and found to have a positive answer. Finally, a
systems approach to evolution of knowledge is outlined, aiming at extensions of fragmented areas of knowledge to uncover cyclic connections, admitting self-consistency as a criterion for acceptability. The method for establishing
self-consistency is the basic unfolding, the divergence of which entertains the evolutionary process. Underneath is the productivity of the linguistic complementarity. By comparison such a productivity seems to be lacking in the complementarity conception of Bohr. The systems approach is compared with
"bootstrap" philosopby in physics. (Less)
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- Löfgren, Lars LU
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- publishing date
- 1981
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- Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
- publication status
- published
- subject
- host publication
- The evolutionary vision : toward a unifying paradigm of physical, biological, and sociocultural evolution
- editor
- Jantsch, Erich
- pages
- 129 - 151
- publisher
- Westview Press
- ISBN
- 0-86531-140-4
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- additional info
- Republished as ebook by T&F 2019 https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429310744
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abstract = {{It is argued that evolution goes beyond that which can be described in a well-defined language) and that it instead enforces a language that is itself evolving. Evolution is the unfolding of this self-reference. The unfolding methodology of the logician Alfred Tarski is taken as a basis for the<br/><br>
explicability of evolution. Looking at Tarski´s results as a linguistic complementarity, we get a view with the productivity of this complementarity as the srource of evolutionary phenomena. These extend to the biological domain upon recognition of life as an autolinguistic phenomenon.<br/><br>
In particular, a describability theory for induction (the epistemological counterpart to biological natural selection) is developed. It explains how induction functions can exist, although not effectively describable. Furthermore, the so called Popper-Carnap controversy is found to have a natural<br/><br>
origin in the linguistic complementarity. Another question under philosophical debate, that of self-supporting rules of induction, is analyzed in terms of the describability theory and found to have a positive answer. Finally, a<br/><br>
systems approach to evolution of knowledge is outlined, aiming at extensions of fragmented areas of knowledge to uncover cyclic connections, admitting self-consistency as a criterion for acceptability. The method for establishing<br/><br>
self-consistency is the basic unfolding, the divergence of which entertains the evolutionary process. Underneath is the productivity of the linguistic complementarity. By comparison such a productivity seems to be lacking in the complementarity conception of Bohr. The systems approach is compared with<br/><br>
"bootstrap" philosopby in physics.}},
author = {{Löfgren, Lars}},
booktitle = {{The evolutionary vision : toward a unifying paradigm of physical, biological, and sociocultural evolution}},
editor = {{Jantsch, Erich}},
isbn = {{0-86531-140-4}},
language = {{eng}},
pages = {{129--151}},
publisher = {{Westview Press}},
title = {{Knowledge of evolution and evolution of knowledge}},
year = {{1981}},
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