He points out that scientists have already discovered some important limits to their ability to describe nature. Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, for example, decrees that a physicist can never pinpoint both a particle's position and its momentum at the same time. If scientists have not proceeded further in establishing what is knowable or unknowable, Suppes says, that may simply be because they have been too busy discovering new phenomena. What is a new twist here is to try to consider limits in terms of science more directly. Suppes suspects that in order to prove certain questions are unanswerable, scientists might have to pose those questions in a mathematically formal way.
Most scientists are fortunate to participate in the creation of one paradigm.
But I have always tried to create new areas. In a sense, researchers studying WISK are trying to construct what might be called a meta-paradigm, one that can help reveal the capabilities and constraints of other, more focused paradigms. Such a meta-paradigm, if it takes hold, might help scientists invest their time and resources more wisely. It might even allow us to know what we cannot know.