29.03.2011
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David Deutsch, Deutsch David, Infinity, Philosophy, physics, The Economist
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voir le document WHY is science so successful? In his long-awaited second book, David Deutsch, a quantum physicist at Oxford University, argues that the discipline provides good explanations, and that explanations hold a special status as fundamental descriptions of the world. A decent explanation has universal reach, he reckons, and the quest for explanations is what makes people human. Identifying good explanations constitutes progress (alas, quantum physics still lacks such an account). And because there is no particular limit to what can be explained, explanations are infinite.
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