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The Study of Nature and the Emergence of World View — Philosophical Reflections on E. Schrödinger’s Approach

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Erwin Schrödinger’s World View

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The great Greek natural philosophers, who Erwin Schrödinger tumed to when dealing with specific issues, provided man with a new approach to nature. The study of nature and man requires a stmctured approach based on specific principles which today are best described as “rational thinking” or scientific thinking.

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Götschl, J. (1992). The Study of Nature and the Emergence of World View — Philosophical Reflections on E. Schrödinger’s Approach. In: Götschl, J. (eds) Erwin Schrödinger’s World View. Theory and Decision Library, vol 16. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2428-7_17

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