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Metaphor, recursive systems, and paradox in science and developmental theory
1Department of Psychology, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122.
Advances in Child Development and Behavior
|January 1, 1991
Summary
Contradictions in science and psychology are resolved through recursive systems, moving to higher abstraction levels. This iterative process reconciles paradoxes, enabling deeper understanding of complex phenomena.
Area of Science:
- Philosophy of Science
- Developmental Psychology
- Systems Theory
Background:
- Scientific and psychological concepts exhibit inherent contradictions at various abstraction levels.
- These paradoxes, such as subject-object or organicism-mechanism, resist resolution at their own level.