Hans-Josef Heck

What Philosophy and Science did not detect

Science and Research are blocked

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• Up till now, we did not reckognise, that our thinking is

able, to create FOUR basically different products of thought.

As each of these four kinds of brainwork has a different

function, we may not not interlink, intermix or process

products of functionally different kinds with each other,

without creating chaos and nonsense.

That each of the following four brainworks serves

a totally different function, can easily be seen.

1 We gain knowledge

about the world, in which we live.

2 We agree on rules,

how we will deal with one another.

3 We create new worlds such as

logic, music, mathematics, games, ...

4 We generate means for representing and documenting

each of these four kinds of brainwork.

• Up till now, we did not reckognise, that

knowledge.creating is acting in the real world.

The approach, to create knowledge about knowledge.creating

by means of a self-created world of logic was prone to fail.

• Up till now, we did not reckognise, that we internalised

unverifiable assumptions as presuppositions which hinder

us on - consciously and consistently - thinking about and

doing research on our thinking and knowledge.creating.

As we have to create knowledge to be able to survive

evolution has gifted us with the urge to gain knowledge.

With the result that in the course of our evolution

we have accumulated a lot of brainwork

that will not stand up to scrutiny.

On growing up we internalised all this brainwork.

We cling to it,

• as the objectives, we internalised,

constitute the communities, we want to live in, and

• as the objectives let us deduce the criteria,

we need for our decision taking.

That's why it is difficult to do research on

the fundamental giveness of the universe.

As the sciences of science¹) are not aware

of this, their doing research is in a deadlock.

• This treatise presents fundamentally new insights.

As we - when growing up - internalised unverifiable

assumptions and narratives, we are inclined to compare

the new insights with these assumptions and narratives.

But the new insights can only be verified

by applying them on the reality.

• Our knowledge.creating about the giveness

and the manner of funtioning of the reality

has to gain knowledge, that is verifiable.

• As we - up till now - did not differentiate between the four

funktionally different brainworks, our methodical approach

has somewhat gone off the rails.

Knowledge can only be gained by observing.

Knowledge can be gained

neither by agreeing nor by creating nor by generating.

Knowledge has to be verifiable against reality.

• Knowledge.creating must have a function.

To be able to act successfully

we have to set a function and we have to gain knowledge

about what is taking.place in the real world

so that we are able to control the execution process

to possibly achieve the functional goal, we set.

• The assumption that all and everything had a beginning

inhibits the insight, that all taking.place has

to have a function in order to stay in existence.

Functionality is

the condition for the existence of the universe.

The assumption

the cause - as the earlier part of a taking.place - were

"responsibly" deciding for the existence of the universe

is not correct.

Therefore the search for a principle of causality

could not be successful²)

• Up till now, we did not reckognise, that any claim for

absoluteness will inhibit any knowledge.creating.

Science and scociety still demand for truth as well as for

objectivity and neutrality as absolute "standards".

The belief, that we had to search for truth is still being

held by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)³).

The hope for objectivity respectively neutrality is not only

held by the DFG, but is also implied in global projects such

as Wikipedia or as a claim for neutrality of journalists

in media like DIE ZEIT⁴).

The claim for absoluteness inhibits to set a function

for our knowledge.creating or our acting.

But without a function, without a WHATFOR, any 'answer'

is useless, good for nothing and therefore not verifiable.

But as scientifical can only be claimed

what can be used for - what it was created for -

and what can be verified anytime by anyone.

Annex 1: Annotations

¹) Sciences of Science are

philosophy of science

theory of science

epistemology

²) edoc.bbaw.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/828

nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b4-opus-9913

Debatte 5 – Kausalität

Streitgespräche in den Wissenschaftlichen Sitzungen

der Versammlung der Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie

der Wissenschaften am 9. Dezember 2005 und 5. Mai 2006

Autoren:

Harald Fritzsch, Siegfried Großmann, Martin Hellwig,

Reinhold Kliegl, Christoph Markschies,

Jürgen Mittelstraß, Jürgen Osterhammel,

Ortwin Renn, Christine Windbichler, Anton Zeilinger

Teilnehmer:

Ash, Mitchell; Bredekamp, Horst; Fritzsch, Harald;

Gethmann, Carl Friedrich; Großmann, Siegfried;

Hasinger, Günther Gustav; Hellwig, Martin;

Klein, Wolfgang; Kliegl, Reinhold; Lucas, Klaus;

Markl, Hubert; Markschies, Christoph; Menzel, Randolf;

Mittelstraß, Jürgen; Nida-Rümelin, Julian;

Osterhammel, Jürgen; Renn, Ortwin; Rösler, Frank;

Sauer, Joachim; Scheich, Henning; Voßkamp, Wilhelm;

Wagner, Rudolf; Windbichler, Christine; Zeilinger, Anton

³) Die Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) setzt noch heute

als Aufgabe der Wissenschaft die Suche nach Wahrheit.

Sie schreibt in ihrer

Denkschrift zur Sicherung guter wissenschaftlicher Praxis:

"Forschung im idealisierten Sinne ist Suche nach Wahrheit."

In: Sicherung guter wissenschaftlicher Praxis - Denkschrift

Safeguarding Good Scientific Practice - Memorandum

Empfehlungen der Kommission

„Selbstkontrolle in der Wissenschaft“

Recommendations of the Commission on

Professional Self Regulation in Science

S.40, "2.1 Normen der Wissenschaft"

Print-ISBN 978-3-527-33703-3

⁴) Debatte zum Thema „Journalist und Aktivist” in 2013/2014

https://www.zeit.de/digital/internet/2013-12/glenn-greenwald-journalismus-debatte

https://mmm.verdi.de/beruf/neutralitaetspflicht-5479

Hans-Josef Heck

What Philosophy and Science did not detect Science and Research are blocked

Annex 1: Annotations

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