Abstract

Today, it is difficult to find much unanimity in what is “the prediction”. New mathematical theories offer the support for an epistemological investigation of predictability. Chaos breaks across the lines that separate the scientific predictions. Chaos poses new conceptual problems in philosophy. Prediction and Anticipation is a conceptual distinction between numerical predictions and geometrical `predictions`. Anticipation means to see what kind of theoretical picture one could develop. Conceptual analysis on a philosophical level is an operational way to clarify the so called ‘deterministic chaos`