@misc{Lexicon of Arguments,
title = {Quotation from: Lexicon of Arguments – Concepts - Ed. Martin Schulz, 28 Mar 2024},
author = {Feyerabend,Paul},
subject = {Idealization},
note = {I 81
Approximation Method/Qualitative Difficulties/Feyerabend: Examples of reduction are: reduction of the wave packet (I 82), heliocentric theory at the time of Galileo.
Ad-hoc approximations to many quantitative results of the theories are not correct and surprisingly qualitatively inadequate. E.g., von Neumann replaced the semi-intuitive concepts of Dirac and Bohr with incredibly complicated concepts. The relation to experience becomes more obscure than ever.
>Experience, >Observation, >Explanation, >Reduction, >Reductionism.},
note = { Feyerabend I Paul Feyerabend Against Method. Outline of an Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge, London/New York 1971 German Edition: Wider den Methodenzwang Frankfurt 1997 Feyerabend II P. Feyerabend Science in a Free Society, London/New York 1982 German Edition: Erkenntnis für freie Menschen Frankfurt 1979
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