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== The Essential Incompleteness of All Science ==

== The Essential Incompleteness of All Science ==

In [Karl Popper|Popper's] view the attempts at methodological reduction are fruitful, however there are still residues or vicious circles that have prevented full scientific reductions to be accomplished.<ref name="CriticalAppraisals">{{cite book

In [[Karl Popper|Popper's]] view the attempts at methodological reduction are fruitful, however there are still residues or vicious circles that have prevented full scientific reductions to be accomplished.<ref name="CriticalAppraisals">{{cite book

|author=Philip Catton

|author=Philip Catton

|title=Karl Popper: Critical Appraisals

|title=Karl Popper: Critical Appraisals

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|quote=}}</ref> As an example he is pointing at the origin of life and of the genetic code and suggests that we may be faced with the possibility that the origin of life (like [Singularity|the origin of physics]) becomes an impenetrable barrier to science, and a residue to all attempts to reduce biology to chemistry and physics.<ref name="Incompleteness">{{cite book

|quote=}}</ref> As an example he is pointing at the [[origin of life]] and of the [[genetic code]] and suggests that we may be faced with the possibility that the origin of life (like [[Singularity|the origin of physics]]) becomes an impenetrable barrier to science, and a residue to all attempts to reduce biology to [[chemistry]] and [[physics]].<ref name="Incompleteness">{{cite book

|author=Karl R. Popper

|author=Karl R. Popper

|title=Scientific Reduction and the Essential Incompleteness of All Science. Quoted in Ayala, F. and Dobzhansky, T., eds., Studies in the Philosophy of Biology, University of California Press, Berkeley, p. 270  

|title=Scientific Reduction and the Essential Incompleteness of All Science. Quoted in Ayala, F. and Dobzhansky, T., eds., Studies in the Philosophy of Biology, University of California Press, Berkeley, p. 270  

== Epistemological reductionism ==

== Epistemological reductionism ==

'''[[Epistemology|Epistemological]] reductionism''' is the view that the higher level phenomena can be explained by processes at a lower level.<ref name="LENNOX"/>

'''[[Epistemology|Epistemological]] reductionism''' is the view that the higher level [[phenomena]] can be explained by [[process]]es at a lower level.<ref name="LENNOX"/>

== Ontological reductionism ==

== Ontological reductionism ==

'''[[Ontology|Ontological]] reductionism''' is associated with perception that the [[universe]] is nothing but a collection of [[atom]]s in motion, human beings are simply machines for propagating [[DNA]] which is self-sustaining process, the sense of personal identity, [[free will]], and concept of beauty are in fact no more than the behavior of a vast assembly of [[Neuron|nerve cells]] and their associated [[molecules]]; and there is no ultimate purpose in the universe.<ref name="LENNOX"/> All human mental experiences such as hopes, fears, loves and beliefs are deemed as reduced to accidental atomic interactions.<ref name="WhomadeGod"/>

'''[[Ontology|Ontological]] reductionism''' is associated with perception that the [[universe]] is nothing but a collection of [[atom]]s in motion, human beings are simply machines for propagating [[DNA]] which is self-sustaining process, the sense of personal identity, [[free will]], and concept of beauty are in fact no more than the behavior of a vast assembly of [[Neuron|nerve cells]] and their associated [[molecules]]; and there is no ultimate purpose in the universe.<ref name="LENNOX"/> All human mental experiences such as hopes, fears, loves and beliefs are deemed as reduced to accidental atomic interactions.<ref name="WhomadeGod"/>

== References ==

== References ==

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[[Category:Philosophy of science]]

[[Category:Philosophy of Science]]

[[Category:Methodology of Science]]

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