Exact Science, Its Critique of Inexact Science and Rationality in Vagueness

Abstract

In the theory of the knowledge square the working framework of a meta-theory of knowledge was presented to justify a claim of a universal principle of knowledge-production process that traverses from the potential space through the possibility space to the probability space and then to the space of epistemic actual. This principle is claimed to be universal to all areas of rational knowledge production. The essential revelation of the discussion is that the core of the universality principle is that the spaces of possibility and probability are defined by defective information structure that leads to fuzzy uncertainty and stochastic uncertainty in the information processing capacity of cognitive agents. The existence of the defective information structure is a universal principle to all areas of knowledge production ranging from the epistemic potential to the epistemic actual in the epistemological space.