Authors :
Sujay Rao Mandavilli
Volume/Issue :
Volume 9 - 2024, Issue 1 - January
Google Scholar :
http://tinyurl.com/bdz8854b
Scribd :
http://tinyurl.com/2dt8rfdk
DOI :
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10558930
Abstract :
This paper seeks to meaningfully complement
many of our earlier and previously published papers on
scientific method and the philosophy of science among
which were our papers on the social responsibility of
researchers, science activism, the sociological ninety ten
rule, the certainty uncertainty principle, cross-cultural
research design, output criteria driven scientific hypothesis
formulation, horizontal collaboration etc., and is intended
to help produce better scientific theories and hypotheses in
general and led to scientific endeavour that is of a
fundamentally higher order as well. It will, we expect and
anticipate, catapult scientific activity to an altogether
higher domain and sphere given that a proactive quest for
paradoxes is at the heart of our approach, and is also
resultantly expected to be an intrinsic part of formal,
structured and pre-defined scientific method in future. It
therefore forms an essential and an integral part of our
globalization of science movement as well, given the fact
that multi-cultural and inter-disciplinary approaches to
science are likely to throw up more paradoxes as well, and
literally up the ante too by leading to scientific activity that
is of a fundamentally higher order. We begin this paper by
getting down to brass stacks and attempting a basic
definition of the widely used term “paradox” and reviewing
older literature in this regard in different contexts. We also
lay bare the essentials of our approach, and enunciate the
postulates and canons that form a part of our paper, so that
the entire philosophy driving this paper, i.e., its
philosophical foundation, in clearly grasped and
understood by those to whom it is intended.
This paper seeks to meaningfully complement
many of our earlier and previously published papers on
scientific method and the philosophy of science among
which were our papers on the social responsibility of
researchers, science activism, the sociological ninety ten
rule, the certainty uncertainty principle, cross-cultural
research design, output criteria driven scientific hypothesis
formulation, horizontal collaboration etc., and is intended
to help produce better scientific theories and hypotheses in
general and led to scientific endeavour that is of a
fundamentally higher order as well. It will, we expect and
anticipate, catapult scientific activity to an altogether
higher domain and sphere given that a proactive quest for
paradoxes is at the heart of our approach, and is also
resultantly expected to be an intrinsic part of formal,
structured and pre-defined scientific method in future. It
therefore forms an essential and an integral part of our
globalization of science movement as well, given the fact
that multi-cultural and inter-disciplinary approaches to
science are likely to throw up more paradoxes as well, and
literally up the ante too by leading to scientific activity that
is of a fundamentally higher order. We begin this paper by
getting down to brass stacks and attempting a basic
definition of the widely used term “paradox” and reviewing
older literature in this regard in different contexts. We also
lay bare the essentials of our approach, and enunciate the
postulates and canons that form a part of our paper, so that
the entire philosophy driving this paper, i.e., its
philosophical foundation, in clearly grasped and
understood by those to whom it is intended.
