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Vol. 64 No. 5 (2015)
https://doi.org/10.4081/mem.2015.11
Per una fondazione ontologica della "riduzione consapevole e cooperante"
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The present work develops the ontological presuppositions of scientific methodology labeled as "aware and cooperative reduction". The idea of being underlying scientific reduction is analyzed by distinguishing among legitimate and improper reductionism. This framework is useful to assess within the context of clinical methodology the complexity of scientific practice. We also focus on the ontological roots of complexity in science, reaching to what Viktor Frankl has named "dimensional realism". Thanks to this analytical model we recovered the theme of analogy as an important instrument of scientific rationality, which allows to keep together both the objective and the subjective instances of the epistemological domain. This speculative path lead us to ask about the conditions of possibility of human knowledge. In so doing, we have found the notion of "future potentiality" to be the mark of human knowledge. The result of our inquiry is that "analogical being" is the ontological foundation of scientific methodology. The ontological idea of "analogy" conveys an understanding of being constituted by different levels, or dimensions, which are not conceptually exhaustible within scientific research, but which are nevertheless accessible by human investigation.
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Per una fondazione ontologica della "riduzione consapevole e cooperante". (2015). Medicina E Morale, 64(5). https://doi.org/10.4081/mem.2015.11
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