{Empirical Knowledge in Science [continued]}[27th December 1988]

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The second*problem is of a different order, but follows from the distinction above and the circle locations implied:

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Simplification		|		Ordination
(Intuition)	R~		S~	(Intellection)
	Love		Harmony	Theory
–		+	–
				Experiment
	Creation		Evolution	Practice
	J~	→	U~	(Implementation)
Fragmentation		|		Complication
(Innovation)		←

According to the circle model,** the development from ordination (or organisation) by theory through complication by experimental practice (which is in fact a fair description of what experiment generally does to a theory) will lead in due course to the fragmenting effect of innovatory or creative thought and, in the end, to a simplification by intuition. The third stage, fragmentation by innovation, can perhaps be seen beginning in the uncertainties of quantum physics and the speculations of some of the wilder socio-biological spin-off ‘sciences’.  

The fourth stage, simplification by intuition, is not really science at all as we know it, but opens the way for the true*** inner circle development of Science by Intuition (Idea) → Innovation (Creative thought) → Implementation (Experiment) → Intellection (Theory). (It is no accident that the initial Idea is close to the final Theory on the Circle.) This has long been known as the way that Science ought to happen in development of each theory, and in the best cases does; but that the whole of the new Science itself should develop in this way implies an initial intuitional basis or metaphysic which we can, as yet, only guess at.

*[See last previous entry]

**(cf earlier Vol [[Redbook4:39-43][19870712:1000g]{Research and Development}[12^th July 1987]ff] on Outer Circle development of Science)

***{=??(loaded value judgement?)}

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