| 书目名称 | Prediction or Prophecy? | | 副标题 | The Boundaries of Ec | | 编辑 | Gregor Betz | | 视频video | | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | "Knowing, in order to predict". It was this leitmotiv alone that Auguste Comte, in the 19th century, considered suitable for the then rapidly developing empirical sciences. This view remains unchanged until today—not only in the empirical sciences themselves, but also in the philosophy of science. A scientific theory is and should be evaluated primarily on the grounds of its capacity to correctly predict observable phenomena. The aim of predicting takes precedence over the other important aim of science, namely to produce and purposefully manipulate phenomena by technical means in the laboratory, moreover, it even includes the latter. For if scientists successfully produce and manipulate certain phenomena in an experiment, they can ipso facto predict how that experiment will evolve under certain conditions. We live in a scientifically-dominated world: The more science progresses, the more important correct scientific predictions become. To a sometimes even fa tal extent we have made ourselves dependent on science and its results. Our scientifical-technological interventions into nature, yet also into social processes, cover ever larger spatial and temporal distances, and the conse | | 出版日期 | Book 2006 | | 关键词 | Entscheidungstheorie; Konjunkturprognose; Politikberatung; Wirtschaftsprognose; Wissenschaftstheorie; eco | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-8350-9053-8 | | isbn_softcover | 978-3-8350-0223-4 | | isbn_ebook | 978-3-8350-9053-8 | | copyright | Gabler Verlag | Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, Wiesbaden 2006 |
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