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The understanding of a general phenomenon/mechanism

Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2012 2:22 am
by volcanic
Hi,

I've been reading on the the idea of "mechanism". However I'm struggling to find references on the following idea:

"to understand a general mechanism, one need to consider a large population, and constrain the similarities and differences of each experiment/entities"

such concept is also part of the scientific method.. but I wish someone could help me to focus my research by giving me couple of references on the subject.

Thanks a lot

nico

Re: The understanding of a general phenomenon/mechanism

Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2012 10:40 am
by Impenitent
I'm not exactly certain of the question but you may check out Husserl, Merleau-Ponty, Heidegger, Sartre and Derrida...

there is a ton of political bickering between these fellows, but the foundations of phenomonology/deconstruction are there...

then again, it has been brushed by almost every philosopher since Thales

epoche...

-Imp