Epistemological uncertainty

Epistemological uncertainty This concept includes our incomplete understanding of ecological systems. 

The third level corresponds to truly complex systems, where much epistemological or ethical uncertainty exists and where uncertainty is not necessarily associated with a higher number of elements or relationships within the system. Moreover, the issues at stake reflect conflicting goals. For this reason it is crucial to consider... 

The usual incertainty relations were first derived by Heisenberg, in a paper presented in March 1927. Nevertheless, Bohr was the one who fully understood their significance. He presented his views in the fall of the same year in a now-famous lecture delivered at Lake Di Como, Italy. In this lecture, Bohr derived the uncertainty relations as an epistemological consequence of his principle of... 

The paradox here is that if entropy is a state property of a system it cannot depend on what we happen to know about the system. Quantum mechanics has a similar-sounding, but quite different epistemological problem, which, in principle, placed limits on the precision by which certain pairs of properties are measured. Since measurement involves experimental design and choice of parameters of interest, in the quantum framework the observer is required to complete the phenomenon. In statistical thermodynamics, however, entropy is microscopic uncertainty and if we interpret entropy as lack of microscopic information about the macroscopic thermodynamic state we seem to get involved in the identity of that state alone, which would be a conflicting standpoint. Therefore, let us discuss all such viewpoints and inherent differences often arising from not fully congruous ideas, which try to enlighten the true interdisciplinary of the notion of entropy. 

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