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The Integral Nature of the Scientific Enterprise

2026-01-01

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Science seeks to explicate truths about our reality. But what is truth? How do we know things? Given our ignorance, and our fallibility, why should scientists be trusted? An account of knowledge that addresses these human questions is sketched, in conversation with recent advances in thermodynamics which underline the seminal importance of unity by demonstrating (i) a definite physical meaning of the idea of “unit...

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Literature Corpus work: 649b5120-426f-5369-9e05-0960cb5498b5
DOI: 10.20944/preprints202408.1674.v3

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