ESSAY 6 ANATOL GROSSE: Study of penguin social behaviour
“In knowledge there is always a trade-off between accuracy and simplicity.”
Evaluate this statement
Accuracy
Getting closer to Correspondant truth?
How close it matches
Simplicity
Understandable (to most possible)
Effortless
Briefness
For something to be accurate it has to be complicated
Can accuracy never be simple?
ALWAYS
KC
Can something simple be accurate?
Axioms?
Can they be made simpler in exchange for accuracy
Simplicity but in what part of the process?
Simplicity in the communication of the answer
Simplicity in the investigation process in making the claim
Simplicity in science can come from ignoring a few factors in the experiment in science?
Natural sciences: TO the cell theory it can be explained in simple terms for a person not taking science to understand but this explanation will lack accuracy as many concepts are left out.
All living organisms are composed of one or more cells. The cell is the basic unit of
structure and organization in organisms. Cells come from preexisting cells.
Looking at the science behind mitosis for example reduces the simplicity but gives a more accurate understanding of what is happening
Can oversimplifying things make them less understandable??
Simplicity varies between individual
The title could be rephrased as there is a negative correlation between accuracy and simplicity in knowledge.
Or as the accuracy of knowledge decreases the simplicity increases and the other way around
Simpler as it is more understandable for most
Simpler in terms the is shorter, less ambigious and easy to understand for people with that level of understanding
Which one is then the most accurate? No matter which one it is this would disprove the claim in the title, assuming both can be seen as simple
The "Simple" in the title has to be defined for the claim to be worth considertion as an appliccable concept
Simple as easy to understand for individuals with limited knowledge in that AOK
+ simplicity = - Accuracy?
-simplicity = + accuracy?
+Accuracy = -Simplicity?
-Accuracy = +Simplicity?
KQ: Can simplicity and accuracy and knowledge coexist?
KQ2: Do we choose between choose between accuracy and simplicity?
KQ3: Simplicity or accuracy, which one is more useful in establishing models of reality?
This on
Concepts as lenses
looking at how simplicity gives depth but not bredth
Look at 2 aok
Religion painting and other interpretations
Pyramids about the more specific something is the less people understand