THE IMPORTANCE OF THE HISTORICAL AND EPISTEMOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE AS A COUNTERPOINT TO A VIEW OF SCIENCE AS DEFINITIVE KNOWLEDGE
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Epistemologia, Ciência, revolução científica, história, dogmatismoAbstract
The scientific goal can be summarized as the quest to expand the explanatory capacity of the world. To this end, Science takes a particular aspect of an object as a starting point for investigation, in order to describe its measurable properties. Despite being a highly compartmentalized and specialized view of nature, this format, established in the 17th century, henceforth became the dominant view of the world and the expression of truth. At the same time, its aspects of fallible, provisional and conjectural knowledge, although fundamental to human progress, have been replaced by a discourse of unassailable, counterproductive and anti-pedagogical infallibility. It is in academic training the moment to approach the historical and epistemological aspects that characterize scientific activity, exemplified here in six points, that a more human view of Science and represented as an eternally provisional attempt to explain phenomena can manifest itself.
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