Indeterminacy: Order Versus Chaos :: Philosophy

Indeterminacy Order Versus Chaos ABSTRACT Indeterminacy, uncertainty, dis baffle, randomness, vagueness, fuzziness, ambiguity, crisis, undecideability, chaos, atomic number 18 all diametrical terms. Yet, they are also semantically related to the idea of something opposed to order or structure and organization. Such terms denote prima facie insuperable obstacles to the attainment of true, certain, or precise knowledge about things and events. After analysing the ontological, logical, and axiological status of indeterminary, I outline the aoristic logic which allows adequate descriptions of phenomena pertaining to an study of indeterminary. Aoristic logic provides a propositional calculus that makes possible the compatibility of order with indeterminacy. 1. occupationTruth, certainty, precision are the highest criteria for judgement on any statement concerning structures and processes of a universe within the reach of the human mind. People learned that the fabulous heritage cann ot satisfy all spiritual needs and, consequently, the mind activeness extended from the perceptual explanation of the world to the conception of means to phonograph record and disseminate the resulting cognitions. Thinking became gradually a researching activity with a endure educational component and was able to develop a twofold get on with philosophy dealing with general retrospective analyses and prospective out realizes, and science focal point the attention on particular actual problems approached by specific means. In spite of obvious differences, both philosophical and scientifical thoughts are to submit their statements to he above criteria for assuming the noblest tasks of Paideia.At the turning of our century the science of the inactive world, i.e. physics and chemistry, discovered phenomena that compelled the scientists to revise old deterministic patterns of explanation wich became controversial, and to look for new ones. During our century concepts like natural l aw, order, certainty became a proceeds of doubt for both theoretical and experimental scientists. Almost concomitantly biologists discovered that breeding phenomena had to be approached as chains of changes, so that the concept of creation was to be redefined together with the concept of order. Similar changes were recorded in the social sciences wich are dealing with animal and human collectivities. Finally, the uncontroversial model of exactness, mathematics, had refine its tools in order to tackle the problems issued from empirical sciences and to use efficiently the amazing facilities provided by electronic computational devices.All these changes of pattern in science admit entailed many ideatic changes in the philosophical camp, where were working not only specialise philosophers but also scientists who used to expound sometimes polemically their testify theses on topics from their domains.