WildcatSat, Jun 27, 2009 "The most important of Hertz’s questions to Mach is: what is simplicity?
"Here it is not certain what is simple and permissible and what is not," Hertz
writes (PM, xxv). In fact Hertz’s query about the nature of simplicity turns out to
be a series of questions about the role of what Kant termed "regulative ideas"
with respect to scientific theory: what sorts of considerations have guided us as
we shaped our models of physical reality in the past? what sorts of
considerations should guide us as we shape our representation now? what
sorts of considerations with respect to shaping our models of physical reality
help us to understand how we confuse ourselves in the interpretation of
models?"
This comes from a paper: pdf- Wittgenstein, Hertz and Hermeneutics
Allan Janik
The Brenner Archives, University of Innsbruck
in this respect I would like to ask you a similar question to that asked by Hertz, in what fashion does the model you propose takes into consideration the state of affairs of the mind at present?
"The most important of Hertz’s questions to Mach is: what is simplicity?
"Here it is not certain what is simple and permissible and what is not," Hertz
writes (PM, xxv). In fact Hertz’s query about the nature of simplicity turns out to
be a series of questions about the role of what Kant termed "regulative ideas"
with respect to scientific theory: what sorts of considerations have guided us as
we shaped our models of physical reality in the past? what sorts of
considerations should guide us as we shape our representation now? what
sorts of considerations with respect to shaping our models of physical reality
help us to understand how we confuse ourselves in the interpretation of
models?"
This comes from a paper: pdf- Wittgenstein, Hertz and Hermeneutics
Allan Janik
The Brenner Archives, University of Innsbruck
in this respect I would like to ask you a similar question to that asked by Hertz, in what fashion does the model you propose takes into consideration the state of affairs of the mind at present?