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Varieties of Limits to Scientific Knowledge

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  • Piet Hut
  • David Ruelle
  • Joseph Traub

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Any area of knowledge is structured by an intricate interplay of limits, and joining. An apparently restrictive limit may actually reveal itself as liberating. We discuss the role that limits play in the real world, in our mathematical idealizations, and inthe mappings between them. We propose a classification of limits, and suggest how and when limits to knowledge appear as challenges that can advance knowledge.

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  • Piet Hut & David Ruelle & Joseph Traub, 1998. "Varieties of Limits to Scientific Knowledge," Working Papers 98-02-015, Santa Fe Institute.
    • Handle: RePEc:wop:safiwp:98-02-015
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    1. Diego Iribarren, 2003. "From Economic Activity to Understanding Spaces," Econometrics 0303008, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    2. Diego Iribarren, 2003. "From Economic Activity to Understanding Spaces," EERI Research Paper Series EERI_RP_2003_01, Economics and Econometrics Research Institute (EERI), Brussels.
    3. Javier A. Birchenall, 2016. "Population and development redux," Journal of Population Economics, Springer;European Society for Population Economics, vol. 29(2), pages 627-656, April.
    4. Diego Iribarren, 2003. "From Economic Activity to Understanding Spaces," Method and Hist of Econ Thought 0303001, University Library of Munich, Germany.

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