Shechtman’s Three Question Marks: Possibility, Impossibility, and Quasicrystals

Amihud Gilead

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-41124-4_9

Shechtman’s Three Question Marks: Possibility, Impossibility, and Quasicrystals

Amihud Gilead

Department of Philosophy

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The revolutionary discovery of actual quasicrystals, thanks to Dan Shechtman’s stamina, is a golden opportunity to analyze once again the role that individual pure (“theoretical”) possibilities and saving them plays in scientific progress. Some theoreticians, primarily Alan Mackay, contributed to saving individual pure possibilities of quasicrystalline structures and to opening materials science for them. My analysis rests upon panenmentalism, which I introduced in 1999, quite independently of any familiarity with modern crystallography, and which deals with saving individual pure possibilities as indispensably contributing, inter alia, to our knowledge and sciences.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Synthese Library
Publisher	Springer Science and Business Media B.V.
Pages	161-172
Number of pages	12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41124-4_9
State	Published - 2020

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Name	Synthese Library
Volume	424
ISSN (Print)	0166-6991
ISSN (Electronic)	2542-8292

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History and Philosophy of Science
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