Charles Darwin's Incomplete Revolution

Delisle, Richard G.

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“…He applied metaphors for elucidation, to testing the basis of his arguments, and also to minimize conflicting and ambiguous perspectives operating within his theory. 5 According to Delisle (2019), there were many problems in Darwin's theory that required attention and creative answers such as metaphor.…”

Section: Darwin's Use Of Metaphors In His Argumentationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…According to Delisle (2019) one reason for such application of these terms and linguistic ambivalence in Darwin's argument is due to the fact that he "inherited from the previous centuries a number of concepts that guided him in his thinking: stability, completeness, timelessness (eternity), unity (within classes), permanence, and uniformity." (2019, p.60).…”

Section: Darwin's Use Of Metaphors In His Argumentationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Furthermore, as Delisle explains, although scholars of the Darwin industry focused on the methodological aspects of this debate and commitments, there are also reasons to believe that the "analysis should also be extended to cover its ontological aspect" (2019, p.60). This being said, a revealed theology was definitely out of the way, but not a natural theology, and with it, Darwin's argumentative sometimes made hard the distinctions that he needed, like the causality problem (Delisle 2019;Richards and Ruse 2016;Ruse 1999). For instance, Darwin needed to focus on the separation between primary and secondary causes for natural phenomena.…”

Section: Darwin's Use Of Metaphors In His Argumentationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…8 On this account, what are the limits of human minds about a phenomenon happening right now and everywhere, but whose outcomes could not be directly observed and generally take millions of years? According to Delisle (2019), this was an argumentative strategy that Darwin tried to push into the scientific community about the impression of a vertical time, when in fact all he had was the flat timescale, a horizontal time (known as the present).…”

Section: Modeling a Powerful Being In Naturementioning

confidence: 99%

“…10 According to Delisle (2019), Darwin was at pains to convince his colleagues, like Moritz Wagner, William Hopkins and George Romanes, about the speciation theory presented in chapter 4 of his book. Part of the answer was dependent upon what kind of model he used to explore the intricacies of his theory on how species split.…”

Section: Final Considerationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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An alternative View for Scientific Models Based on Metaphors: a case analysis from Darwin's use of metaphors

Oliveira

2022

Principia

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This paper aims to offer an alternative view for understanding scientific models based on metaphors. To accomplish this, we employ a special case of Darwin’s use of metaphors, such as the notion of powerful Being, in order to represent natural selection. Our proposal contributes to issues in the literature of scientific model, such as imprecisions in the understanding of scientific models, especially in models based on metaphors. Thus, our alternative view of models based on metaphors, and inspired by Darwin’s use of metaphors, provides us with four features, a-simplification and selection; b-articulation of familiar-unfamiliar structures; c-accessibility and moderations of complexity, and finally d-local realism. We contrast these features with Darwin’s use of a metaphors. We conclude by saying that our proposal of metaphor’s approach of models does not only contribute to the clarification of how these types of scientific models can be understood but it shows that metaphors can also contain a realist element that explains why scientists often use it in their practices of modeling the world.

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Section: Darwin's Use Of Metaphors In His Argumentationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Darwin's Use Of Metaphors In His Argumentationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Darwin's Use Of Metaphors In His Argumentationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Modeling a Powerful Being In Naturementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Final Considerationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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