Soft Sciences versus Crisp Sciences:a look into the future of Science
In this paper we pretend to open a discussion on theneed of alternative approaches to Western Sciences,pointing out some of the restrictive consequences ofthe Aristotelian logic Western Sciences assume in theirdeeper roots.In particular,we stress that meanwhilesome logic is needed in order to check consistenciesand inconsistencies,the past practical uniqueness ofsuch a logic imposed that experiments and informationhad to be modeled,as the only consistent possibility,the way they are described in Probability Theory.Inthese terms it is easy to understand that all thoseSocial Sciences that deal with linguistic informationwill never fully fit key Western scientific requirements.But perhaps an alternative Science can be consistentlyconstructed from a non-binary logic,allowing the termsoft Sciences to become proper,in opposition tohard Sciences,that should since then be calledcrisp Sciences.
Javier Montero
Complutense University Madrid,Spain
国际会议
厦门
英文
1384-1387
2008-11-17（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）