Hossein Jorjani First publication: 2026 – 09 – 20 Modern science is divided into increasingly specialized fields. A scientist may spend decades acquiring intimate knowledge of a relatively narrow area while knowing little more than an educated outsider about many others. This is not necessarily a defect. Specialization is one of the conditions that makesContinue reading “Excursus 147 — On Viewing Science from Different Sides”
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Excursus 091 – On Reconstruction as a Form of Scientific Inference
Hossein Jorjani First publication: 2026 – 07 – 19 Scientific inference is commonly discussed in terms of interpolation and extrapolation. Yet many important forms of modern scientific reasoning belong to neither category. They are better understood as instances of reconstruction. Interpolation estimates unknown values that lie within an observed domain. Extrapolation extends established relationships beyondContinue reading “Excursus 091 – On Reconstruction as a Form of Scientific Inference”
Excursus 031 – On Extrapolation
Hossein Jorjani First publication: 2026 – 06 – 30 In Aphorism I:70 of the Novum Organum (1620), Bacon warns that the evidential force of an experiment should remain “rooted in the experiment itself” unless its conclusions are transferred to other cases by a proper and orderly method. This caution anticipates what may be called extrapolationContinue reading “Excursus 031 – On Extrapolation”
