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Strategii euristice
Heuristic Strategies

Author(s): Teodor Dima
Subject(s): Philosophy
Published by: Academia Română, Filiala Iași Institutul de Cercetări Economice și Sociale „Gheorghe Zane”
Keywords: heuristic strategies; assimilation; inspiration; theoretical construction; Principia Mathematica

Summary/Abstract: This article presents the steps of a heuristic strategy: 1) preliminary preparation (assimilation, penetration, information gathering through different universal procedures, such as: studying, reading, travels, discussions, observations, etc.); 2) inspiration (working and/or scientific hypotheses, proposing new concepts, definitions, comparisons, experiences, motivations, demonstrations); 3) decantation (calculate, make use of inferences and of logical and methodological procedures); 4) composition or construction (synthesis, inspiration, imagination, analogies, criticism, self-criticism, final conclusions, elaboration of treatises and/or theories etc.). We show that discovery and invention include elements of logic, mathematics, methodology, psychology, favorable events, etc. We distinguished two heuristic strategies drawing on Max Plank’s construction of quantum physics and on Bertrand Russell’s and A.N. Whitehead’s transformation of logic into a formal system.

  • Issue Year: 1/2016
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 1-24
  • Page Count: 24
  • Language: Romanian
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