Progress and conservation, which appear to oppose each other, are in fact necessary to explore the multitude of things in their unity. One without the other is meaningless and insufficient to describe nature in its entirety. The synthesis between the two may be impossible, and perhaps it should remain so, but it must exist as an ideal or rather as a quest. There are no progressives on one side and conservatives on the other because we all embody a bit of both. What distinguishes between two schools of thought (for example, idealism and realism) or two metaphysical approaches to the world is the subtle connection between several complementary aspects of the same reality, which forms a profound worldview. The way we employ this complementarity may truly define a school of thought, rather than the predominant direction of the thought itself. In other words, our manner of nuanced thinking defines our thought. Explore how progress and preservation shape scientific understanding in the latest Skeptical Inquirer: https://ow.ly/32Pf50TYC2T #ScientificProgress #ProgressAndPreservation #SkepticalInquirer #PhilosophyOfScience
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