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| Creativity: Creativity is the ability to generate new and original ideas, products, or solutions. It is a complex process that involves divergent thinking, convergent thinking, and evaluation._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Gerhard Schurz on Creativity - Dictionary of Arguments
I 188 Def Empirical creativity/Schurz: characteristic of scientific theories: two or more theoretical hypotheses generate new empirical content, which goes beyond the sum or union of the empirical contents of the individual law hypotheses. (Kutschera 1972(1),304f). i.e. not only that the eG of the conjunction H1 u H2 of two theoretical propositions contains more than the union of the individual empirical contents E(H1)U E(H2) (this is mostly trivial), but that the empirical content of H1 u H2 contains more than the empirical consequence set of E(H1)U E(H2). >Empirical content, >Content. I 189 Ex H1: (x)(Fx > τ(x)), H2: (x) τ(x) > Gx) Then E(H1) = empty, hence E(E(H1) UE(H2)) = empty but E(H1 u H2) = C((x)(Fx > Gx)). Therefore, it is possible that a theoretical speculation without eG can generate new empirical content in the context of a later theory T . For although E(H) is empty, E(T u H) may be much larger than E(T). Notation: C(x) logical or probabilistic content. >Theories/Schurz, >Theories, >Science. I 216 Ramsey Theorem/Theory/Schurz: Problem: Because of the desired empirical creativity, theories are bad to replace by their Ramsey Theorem. If T(τ) and another theory H(τ) share a TT τ, then R(T u H I) is logically stronger than R(T) u R(H), because the latter conjunction does not imply quantification in T and in H over the same entity. Thus, one must always replace the entire theory version by the Ramsey theorem, not just conjunctive parts. Otherwise, the interaction between the theory terms of the individual theory parts would not occur. 1. Kutschera, F. v. (1972). Wissenschaftstheorie Bd. I u. II, München: W. Fink Verlag._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Schu I G. Schurz Einführung in die Wissenschaftstheorie Darmstadt 2006 |
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