Not even wrong
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"Not even wrong"、疑似科学や質の低い理論を指す成句である。日本語では「間違いですらない」、「間違ってもいない」などと訳される。議論の場や紹介において科学を偽っているが、誤謬や憶測に基づいているために論理的厳密かつ科学的に、正しいとも間違っているとも断定できない理論を指す。
由来
The phrase is generally attributed to the theoretical physicist Wolfgang Pauli, who was known for his colorful objections to incorrect or careless thinking.[1][2]
Rudolf Peierls documents an instance in which "a friend showed Pauli the paper of a young physicist which he suspected was not of great value but on which he wanted Pauli's views. Pauli remarked sadly, 'It is not even wrong'."[3][4] This may also be quoted as "That is not only not right; it is not even wrong", or in Pauli's native German, "Das ist nicht nur nicht richtig; es ist nicht einmal falsch!" Peierls remarks that quite a few apocryphal stories of this kind have been circulated, and mentions that he listed only the ones personally vouched for by him. He quotes another example when Pauli replied to Lev Landau, "What you said was so confused that one could not tell whether it was nonsense or not."[3]
In this model, a distinction is drawn between things that are simply wrong (e.g., due to an ordinary factual or logical error) and things that are so completely wrong that proving their errors was hopeless.[5]
Peter Woit uses the phrase "not even wrong" to mean "unfalsifiable".[6]
関連項目
出典
- ^ Shermer M (2006). “Wronger Than Wrong”. Scientific American 295 (5): 40. Bibcode: 2006SciAm.295e..40S. doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1106-40. オリジナルの10 August 2011時点におけるアーカイブ。.
- ^ Jung, C. G.; Pauli, Wolfgang; Meier, C. A.; Zabriskie, Beverley; Roscoe, David (1 July 2014) (英語). Atom and Archetype: The Pauli/Jung Letters, 1932–1958. Princeton University Press. p. xxxiii. ISBN 978-0-691-16147-1
- ^ a b Peierls, R. (1960). “Wolfgang Ernst Pauli, 1900–1958”. Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 5: 186. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1960.0014.
- ^ Peierls, Rudolf (1992). “Where Pauli Made His 'Wrong' Remark”. Physics Today 45 (12): 112. Bibcode: 1992PhT....45l.112P. doi:10.1063/1.2809934.
- ^ Thomas, Gary (2007-04-16) (英語). Education and Theory. McGraw-Hill Education (UK). p. 15. ISBN 978-0-335-23027-3. "Pauli had three levels of insult for what he saw as bad science: 'Wrong!', 'Completely wrong!' and 'Not even wrong!' – the last meaning that the work couldn't even be shown to be wrong."
- ^ Burkeman, Oliver (2005年9月19日). “Not even wrong”. The Guardian
外部リンク
- “20 Years of Not Even Wrong”. Not Even Wrong - Columbia Math Department (2024年3月20日). 2024年8月25日閲覧。
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