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The Appearance and Role of Complexes in Some of Galileo Galilei’s Claims

Zoran Primorac
Andrej Ule


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str. 3-27

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We discuss the role of the pre-conceptual complex thought in scientific
knowledge and in the development of science. The heterogeneity and imagination of complex thought enables the preservation of the conceptual structure and helps reshape entire theoretical nets, however, its downside is reflected in its latent contradiction and inconsistency. This paper is a continuation of our analysis of the relationship between complex and conceptual thought in Aristotle’s Physics. If Aristotle’s central complex is the notion of “place”, then Galileo’s basic complex is the notion of “(mechanical) movement”. Since Galileo didn’t have an elaborated conceptual structure of mechanics, we can say that his theoretical basis is “steeped” in the level of complex thought, yet it relies on the mathematical structure and experiment, thereby creating a stable theoretical organization which serves as a basis for the new theoretical systematization and for the shaping of a conceptual structure as Newton’s. Thus, we may claim that, in a certain way, this change raised complex thought in science to a higher level, and brought it to a pre-paradigmatic period.

Ključne riječi

Complex; concept; scientific knowledge; natural movement; inertia

Hrčak ID:

165

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/165

Datum izdavanja:

7.6.2005.

Podaci na drugim jezicima: hrvatski

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