Unsimple Truths

Unsimple Truths Sandra Mitchell

“What is significant for understanding the complexity of this system is to see how an adaptive structure at the higher level (nectar supply) emerges from individual behaviors and how the higher level structure causally influences in a feedback loop behavior at the lower level.” (43)

Other forms of truth than laws may satisfy the same functions. (50) “Our philosophical conception of the character of scientific knowledge should be based on what types of claims function reliably in scientific explanations and predictions.” (51)      -> pragmatic laws      -> include context; exploration of the nature of a law’s contingencies.