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Experiments in mathematics and the natural sciences – The analogy within the descriptive epistemic context

In this paper my aim is to show that, given the descriptive epistemic context, the analogy between mathematics and the natural sciences holds even when one’s epistemic route is experimentation. Experiments are usually taken to be the lynchpin of the natural sciences investigations, which seems to be the domain that does not have much in common with mathematics and the way we grasp the basic mathematical concepts. Putnam, on the other hand, interestingly points out that experiments are perceived in the mathematical investigations too. My goal is to go one step further than Putnam might have wanted to go and, hopefully, show that the analogy holds throughout.

mathematics, natural sciences, experimentation, epistemic route

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