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Lectures / 10/06/2009 7:30 pm
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The Prefix of a Century – The astonishing peculiarities of modern science
In the 20th century science discovered the prefix Un- for itself, as in Unstetigkeit [unsteadiness], Unbestimmtheit [indeterminacy], Unent¬scheid¬barkeit [undecidability], Unvorhersagbarkeit [unpredictability], Unsicherheit [uncertainty]. Many of these terms have become catchphrases. Has this made science better or less good?
Bibliography:
- Fischer, Ernst Peter: Die andere Bildung
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