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Prof.
Pietro Zennaro
Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia
Scientific
research and industrial design:
a few considerations on the North-East of Italy.
One
of the priorities of scientific understanding is concerned with the way
in which said understanding is acquired. Generally speaking, there are three
distinct and consequential steps identifiable in the process of scientific
research that are not always entirely separable from each other. The first
has to do with collecting experimental data relating to the phenomenon that
is being investigated. In a second phase, these data are correlated with
each other by means of a procedure that relies on a set of symbols, corresponding
to a general model or theory. Model and theory serve the purpose of predicting
results that can be verified by means of further measurements or follow-up
tests. The communication and circulation of the relevant results forms the
third step in the scientific research process.
The availability of a common language capable of transmitting and facilitating
the proper interpretation of said results becomes just as important as the
previous phases. "Because words always offer an abstract and approximate
map of reality, verbal interpretations of scientific experiment (...) are
necessarily imprecise and incomplete (...). To be aware that all models
and theories are approximate is of fundamental importance for modern scientific
research".
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