49th Congress, Advanced, Congress Papers
The boundaries of scientific knowledge
Prof. em. Dr. Herbert Pietschmann, Emeritus Professor at the Physics Faculty of the University of Vienna, Austria Summary The scientific age is characterised by a framework of thinking which is based upon Aristotelian logic combined with the axioms of experimentation and causality. Experimentation as expounded by Galileo demands reproducibility, quantification and limitation to simplified systems; [...]