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Distinguished developmental stages of scientific thinking are clearly recognized in the history of the natural sciences. The most basic forms are unorganized sets of isolated beliefs, conjectures, experiences, observations. At the next higher level a “name” appears; it is a metaphor which can be understood in many ways, nevertheless beliefs, and conjectures are interconnected in it. The metaphor is a “black box” whose internal structure and characteristics are not yet known exactly, but it has already been recognized as “something” by being given a name, therefore the metaphor becomes thinkable and can be studied.
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Csányi, V. (1998). Evolution: Model or Metaphor. In: van de Vijver, G., Salthe, S.N., Delpos, M. (eds) Evolutionary Systems. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1510-2_1
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