Un alfabeto de categorías científicas

Carlos Blanco Pérez

doi:10.24310/Metyper.2019.v0i21.5185

Authors

Carlos Blanco Pérez University of Navarra Spain https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8161-6178

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24310/Metyper.2019.v0i21.5185

Keywords:

System, universality, alphabet, category, condensation of complexity

Abstract

The paper discusses the possibility of understanding the entire system of scientific knowledge from a simple alphabet of fundamental categories, which by condensing de-grees of complexity between levels of analysis are capable of recapitulating an immense variety of data and principles. Our focus, however, will be placed on physics and chemis-try (and, to a lesser extent, biology), leaving for further publications the study of neuros-cience and the human sciences

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