Contemporary Natural Philosophy is understood here as a project of the pursuit of the integrated description of reality distinguished by the precisely formulated criteria of objectivity, and by the assumption that the statements of this description can be assessed only as true or false according to clearly specified verification procedures established with the exclusive goal of the discrimination between these two logical values, but not with respect to any other norms or values established by the preferences of human collectives or by the individual choices. This distinction assumes only logical consistency, but not completeness. Completeness (i.e., the feasibility to assign true or false value to all possible statements) is desirable, but may be impossible. This paper is not intended as a comprehensive program for the development of the Contemporary Natural Philosophy but rather as a preparation for such program advocating some necessary revisions and extensions of the methodology currently considered as the scientific method. This is the actual focus of the paper and the reason for the reference to Baconian idola mentis. Francis Bacon wrote in Novum Organum about the fallacies obstructing progress of science. The present paper is an attempt to remove obstacles for the Contemporary Natural Philosophy project to which we have assigned the names of the Idols of the Number, the Idols of the Common Sense, and the Idols of the Elephant.

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当代自然哲学与当代Idola Mentis

在这里，当代自然哲学被理解为追求对现实的综合描述的一个项目，其特征在于精确制定的客观标准，并假定根据明确规定的验证，该描述的陈述只能被评估为真或假。以区别这两个逻辑价值为唯一目标而建立的程序，而不是针对由人类集体的偏爱或个人选择建立的任何其他规范或价值。这种区别仅假定逻辑一致性，而不假定完整性。完整性（即为所有可能的语句分配真或假值的可行性）是理想的，但可能是不可能的。本文的目的不是作为发展当代自然哲学的全面计划，而是为提倡目前被视为科学方法的方法进行必要的修订和扩展的此类程序的准备。这是本文的实际重点，也是引用培根的原因曼陀罗。弗朗西斯·培根（Francis Bacon）在Novum Organum中写道，谬论阻碍了科学的进步。本文旨在消除当代自然哲学项目的障碍，我们为其指定了数字偶像，常识偶像和大象偶像的名称。