Abstract
This paper focuses on a common misunderstanding about science. Science was and is still represented as episteme, certain and definitive knowledge. On the contrary, science develops, like any other human activity, by trial and error, and corrects itself through critical debate within scientific community. This paper want to criticize the belief, wrong but widespread, that the adjective "scientific" is synonymous with “true” and therefore “certain”. Our knowlegde is always fallible, but we have no other means of dealing with our world and even pandemic.
| Translated title of the contribution | [Autom. eng. transl.] The unbearable lightness of science |
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| Original language | Italian |
| Title of host publication | Vulnus. Persone nella pandemia |
| Pages | 11-25 |
| Number of pages | 15 |
| Publication status | Published - 2022 |
Keywords
- Conoscenza
- epistemologia
- epistemology
- knowledge