Full Idea
Perspectival pluralism in science sees many approaches to the same systems, but resting on incompatibile simplifying assumptions, reesulting in unrecognisably different descriptions.
Gist of Idea
Perspectival pluralism says varied simplifications produce diverse descriptions of things
Source
Mazviita Chirimuuta (The Brain Abstracted [2024], 2.1.2)
A Reaction
[compressed] Her great emphasis is on the inescapability of simplifying assumptions, which tend to be subjective and pragmatic, as well as diverse. She makes a particularly good case for this fact in neuroscience.
Book Reference
Mazviita Chirimuuta: 'The Brain Abstracted' [MIT 2024], p.46
Related Idea
Idea 4420 There is only 'perspective' seeing and knowing, and so the best objectivity is multiple points of view [Nietzsche]