Résumé de la recherche

Résumé:

The Inverse Epistemology project challenges the traditional primacy of causal explanation in science, arguing that the historical reliance on "retrodiction",narrative attempts to rationalize past phenomena,has obscured the true engine of scientific progress: proleptic, formal necessity. By examining foundational breakthroughs in physics and molecular biology, the study demonstrates that mathematical formalism does not merely describe reality but actively structures it, acting as an ontological mandate that forces the physical world to conform to algebraic constraints long before empirical verification. Consequently, the research advocates for a fundamental shift from a classical ontology of substances, which centers on material entities with intrinsic properties, to a structural realism, positing that the objective world is composed entirely of invariant mathematical relations. This reconfiguration leads to a post-human epistemic horizon where the value of scientific knowledge is no longer contingent upon its human intelligibility or intuitive clarity, but exclusively upon the precision of its predictive power. Ultimately, the study concludes that mature science functions as an autonomous, objective system of formal calculation, wherein the "real" is defined solely by the rigid necessity of what can be formally anticipated, rendering the human desire for causal storytelling a secondary, psychological relic in an architecture of purely objective necessity.