Suggesting the Scientific World views based on the History of Scientific Thought

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Jun-Young Oh, Yeon-A Son

Abstract

Determinism, which is rooted in the metaphysical belief that objective scientific knowledge exists independently of
humankind’s perception, is comparable to a well-defined mechanism and can be described as “mathematization” as exemplified
in the natural laws of dynamics established by Newton, Einstein, and Schrödinger. Conversely, if we break away from
determinism, we need anthropomorphic concepts such as “possibility” and “contingency.” This study aims to investigate the
shift from the modern deterministic thought to the contingently perceived probabilistic theory of statistical mechanics, changes
in scientific theories from a naturalistic point of view, and the convergence achieved through this process. Since the Darwin
announced his theory of evolution, natural sciences have steadily undergone shift from endeavoring to name, classify, and
measure to emphasizing the transience of things, historical interest, and theorization. The assertion that material forms were
created historically rather than given and that their differences were not created according to supernatural images, but
appeared naturally, starting from small mutations, was put forward to inculcate the fact that there cannot exist an accumulation
of perfect knowledge of the world that had been considered possible thus far.Once the arrow of time is set, we can understand
both unity and diversity, the two key features of nature. Unity arises from the common application of the arrow of time across
the universe, and highly organized diversity emerges due to irreversible process of passing from one equilibrium state to
another

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