Why Is the Universe Comprehensible?
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چکیده
Why is the universe comprehensible? How it that we can come to know its regularities well enough exploit them for our own gain? In this essay I argue nature of comprehension lies in mutually agreed upon methodology use attain and on basic stability universe. But also very act itself places constraints what comprehend by forcing us establish a context knowledge. way has managed conspire make objectively comprehensible subjective observers.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The frontiers collection
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['2197-6619', '1612-3018']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70354-7_9