@article{oai:kitami-it.repo.nii.ac.jp:00006429, author = {渡辺, 祐邦}, issue = {2}, journal = {北見工業大学研究報告}, month = {Mar}, note = {application/pdf, It has been believed for a long time that the technological ruling of nature has resulted from the application of the scientific knowledge which revealed the inherent laws of nature. This type of argument, derived from the days of Bacon and Descartes and still alive in the Marxist philosophy, arose from the side of intellectuals who only observed finished devices such as a compass. Recent study in the history of technology, however, has shown that there was no such relationship as philosophers imagined between science and technology up to the end of the eighteenth century. And now, as a survey carried out by lawyers of Chicago University tells us, many inventions of the twentieth century are not outcomes of the scientific cognitions of nature.  The cognition of nature, or “insight into it” in the words of philosophers, is not a true root of technological invention, though it plays an important role in this action. In the true history of any successful machine, say of aircraft, there lies a long line of unsuccessful or unhappy experiments which were sometimes fatal to the inventors themselves. The most remarkable characteristic of innovation is that the way to success is previously unknown. The inventors do not act after and upon the laws of nature. They revolt against them. Instead of firm confidence, they challenge them only with a law of thumb, too weak and unreliable a weapon, and with a hope that the devices they invent will make human beings free from their physical limitations. This hope, or dream, is not a compensation of suppression, as Freud claims. The actual machine, rationally constructed, is a substitute for the dream.  A human being is a creature that can dream. He was and is homo somniens before being homo sapiens.}, pages = {257--269}, title = {「洞察された必然性」 : ある神話の批判}, volume = {8}, year = {1977} }